On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 06:41:08PM +0000, Tim Landscheidt wrote:
"H. Langos" henrik-mw@prak.org wrote:
I'll unsubscribe and put this address on my blacklist of burnt addresses.
If you add a "X-Archive: encrypt" header, gmane will encrypt your email addresses http://gmane.org/tmda.php
I guess you may read this, but you don't make easy to reach you :)
Thank you for that hint. I'll try this when subscribing with a different address. We'll see if that will keep that address from getting spammed.
Working on the assumption that you could withhold email ad- dresses from spammers is like trying to evade STDs by dating virgins - it will not succeed.
That's why I use address extensions. This way I can deactivate addresses. To stay in your metaphor I use a a different condom for every partner that I have sex with. If one of the condoms gets a funny smell, I know that the person tried to give me a less than pleasant souvenir.
Set up a decent spam filter if you need a technical solu- tion, and you're done.
Now you are working in the assumption that I don't have a decent spam filter. But a spam filter will only work if there is enough information that distinguishes the spam from your ham. In this case the UCE was about a software product to visualize large amounts of data. Something that would even pass a very well trained bayesian filter as it contained a lot of words that are used on this list.
cheers -henrik