On 04/16/16 09:47, Misha S. wrote: > On Sat, Apr 16, 2016 at 6:56 AM, Tim <ignored_mailbox@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> The chief step being to post to this list using an address that's inbox >> auto-deletes everything without a special password, and to receive >> messages using a second address that isn't publicly exposed on this >> list. Long, long, ago, I found that posting to mailing lists was the >> main way to get spam, addresses are harvested from them en-masse. Stop >> exposing your address, and don't use ones that get easily spammed by >> random dictionary attacks, and your spam dwindles significantly. > ===> hi Tim. thanks to yuchahoo bouncing my good email, even after filling out and submitting forms that lists.fedoraproject.org and 5 other subscribed to list are desired, and, also aggravating is that yuckahoo also marks good emails as junk and sends them to their junk folder forcing me to have to also pull emails that they _think_ are junk along to get my good emails that they do not bounce, i missed first post of this thread, so i will start with your post. i agree 100% with your reasoning and maybe should have done so to at start. exception being that when i first subscribed to bellsouth.net, i had no problems. i have an other way that eliminates junk emails. extensive filtering of all email i receive so that any emails that hit last filter for each of my accounts. as such, any thing that hit 'Local Folders / Inbox' using thunderbird email client, what shows up is either new emails needing filter setup or is junk and after a using <j> on them, thunderbird's junk filtering takes care of them. i started filtering procedure during early inet days with netscape when spam/junk was not a problem. with a few changes for spam/junk, i adopted it into thunderbird. even still, using an auto-delete name is best. > But you have to put a notice that makes you look like a douche in all > your outgoing mail. > ===> not true. to my belief, Tim's using name; Tim <ignored_mailbox@xxxxxxxxxxxx> is best way to avoid messing with spam/junk. once i start a new account with another isp and get all my desired email senders, personal and public, notified of new addresses, i will drop bellsouth, aka, att/yuckahoo like a hot brick and enjoy a totally spam/junk free email life. bellsouth/att will also lose me as a pots customer. B-) -- peace out. If Bill Gates got a dime for every time Windows crashes... ...oh, wait. He does. THAT explains it! -+- in a world with out fences, who needs gates. CentOS GNU/Linux 6.7 tc,hago. g . -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: http://lists.fedoraproject.org/admin/lists/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
