And, I forgot to mention another benefit: you'll never, ever be tempted to set your GMail maillist account to vacation auto-reply! On 6/21/07, Peter Connolly <psconnolly@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
This works for me as an effective counter-measure to maillist spam: I avoid the maillist spam syndrome by having a separate GMail account for my maillists. Not only is GMail free and has an enormous inbox (~2GB), but it has GREAT spam filters built in (which you can tune further) AND it is pretty good at grouping maillist threads together too. pc On 6/21/07, maillist@xxxxxxx <maillist@xxxxxxx> wrote: > 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. > The only way to deal with these internet terrorists is to "let" them > win by no longer using email lists. Must be a great satisfaction to > them to be able able to stop the free exchange of advice, information > and ideas. > 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. > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list >
