Around 06:07pm on Thursday, June 21, 2007 (UK time), maillist@xxxxxxx scrawled: > I did not realise until I checked one of my spam filters today how much > spam I was receiving because I have posted on this list. Someone on the > list seems to feel it is a demonstration of their IT skill to be able to > harvest email addresses on a mail list. If you can only see the problem by checking your "spam filters", why is this a problem. > Un-subscribing from this may not be much of a loss to to the list but, > when some person decides to use the list to troll for email addresses to > spam the simplest thing to do is just stop using the email address I use > for the list. > Spammers misuse of internet features such as mail lists are effectively > killing other users enjoyment and use of the net. No its the idiots that respond to spam that are to blame. I had an ever worsening problem with spam up to a couple of months ago, even with spamassassin running on my mail server. I then implemented greylisting (milter-greylist) and have been stunned at how effective it is. I recommend it to anyone who has a problem with spam. Sometimes I just sit and watch my /var/log/maillog for hours - seeing greylisting rejecting 95% of the spam, and spammassassin dealing with the remaining 5% :-) Steve -- A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting a bad thing? 18:26:15 up 4 days, 15:59, 2 users, load average: 0.08, 0.11, 0.03
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