The original poster of that advertising was reminded about the topics of blinux-list. BTW: Looking at the daily volume of spam which hits mailboxes, blinux-list is a (nearly) spam free place. Now there is a great tool available to filter spam messages and stopping them from shining up in your mail box. Get ifile, a general mail filtering system which uses a learning algorithm at http://www.ai.mit.edu/~jrennie/ifile/ And get ifile.procmail at http://xtrmntr.org/ORBman/ifile.procmail.html ifile.procmail needs procmail installed. Ifile can be trained to find out which mail should be considered spam. If you need spam samples, you can get them from http://www.annexia.org/spam/files/ Enjoy! --Hans (maintainer blinux-lists) 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.