Oh, for heaven's sake. Why would it be worse for a blind person to get spam? And, why would the arcane and obnoxious yahoo type interfaces be easier. Spare us. On Tue, 20 Aug 2002, John wrote: > I'm sure everyone here recently got email with the subject, "Tourism Program > For The Blind." > > I am certain your email address has been "harvested" by some unprincipalled > "marketing gurus," and sold to suckers. Probably, from the web archives as > that is easier than enrolling in lots of lists. As you can see from > https://listman.redhat.com/pipermail/blinux-list/2002-August/000638.html > email addresses are in plain view. > > I'm convinced my email address was harvested from _this_ list because nobody > else would think me blind. > > Mailman, the software used to administer this list, can obfuscate email > addresses. > > I'm sending this to the list and to its administrator. I imagine spam is an > even worse problem for most of the people than for those who can see. > > Hopefully, the administrator will take action promptly. > > A useful counter-spam idea I have come up with is a free email address at > Yahoo or similar. They have facilities for filtering email, and you can > decline email that's not from an approved source. I've used such an address > to subscribe to a Red Hat list and it was entirely free of spam. > > A reason to prefer Yahoo is that you can use fetchmail (or any other POP3 > client) to retrieve the email and so it becomes as convenient as the email > address your ISP provides. > > I think Yahoo is charging for this facility in some domains now, but even so > it remains an option worth considering. > > > > -- Janina Sajka, Director Technology Research and Development Governmental Relations Group American Foundation for the Blind (AFB) Email: janina@afb.net Phone: (202) 408-8175 Chair, Accessibility SIG Open Electronic Book Forum (OEBF) http://www.openebook.org