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[Lee Daniel Crocker]

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Subject: Re: [Wikipedia-l] The "wikidown" address
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> (Erik Moeller <erik_moeller at gmx.de>):
> > The "wikidown" address just got spammed. Since there's no way
> > to get off of spammers' lists once on, that pretty much demands
> > that we change it. Further, whatever means we are using to
> > announce that address to human beings should probably be fixed
> > to make it less friendly to address-sucking bots.
> 
> What about spamassassin? It's a pretty decent filter that should catch  
> most of the spam. Getting and staying off spammers' lists seems like a  
> futile exercise, and many people have now memorized the wikidown address.

I run SpamAssassin at Piclab; it's great--it reduces my mail from
about 200-300 a day down to 20-30.  But the "wikidown" address is
attached to my pager, so even one a day is a nuisance.

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Lee Daniel Crocker <lee at piclab.com> <http://www.piclab.com/lee/>
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