-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Also, don't forget that if you change your From address, most list managers will reject your message. They allow posts from subscribed users only. Mailman also has a feature that conceals addresses in archives which helps. - -- It's not one damn thing after another, it's the same damn thing over and over. (History repeats itself) Joseph C. Lininger jbahm at pcdesk.net Verification: 5eab38a77ac40416e075be8f50607ff7 And so it came to pass that on Tue, 26 Jul 2005, Kenny Hitt said > Hi. > > I've seen the same advice. Usually, it suggest changing the address so > it is more difficult for software to figure out it is an address. I > don't know of any option in mutt that would allow this to happen > automatically. The advice is in files from years back and refered to > news groups. > > You're right about the info still being in the headers. Unless the list > software removes it before archiving, you can get the info by searching > the archives of a list. > > Basically, I don't worry about it. All my addresses have been around > long enough that I will get spam on all of them. I just make sure to > teach my spamassassin to ?ssassinate" any new spam, make sure my > mail server can't be used by spammers, and go on about my life. > > Hope this helps. > Kenny > > On Tue, Jul 26, 2005 at 12:35:28PM -0700, Sean McMahon wrote: >> someone from another mailing list I'm on warned me to not quote the full email >> addresses of people when I send mail to the list. This individual stated that >> spammers use addresses from list archives to spam people. Is this a real >> problem and is there information on how to properly filter address display for >> lists in mutt or pine? Obviously, something would have to show up in the >> headers of a message for the mail to be sent. >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Speakup mailing list >> Speakup at braille.uwo.ca >> http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (MingW32) iD8DBQFC5udyJ6dqn0mqPbARAollAKDlo0O7qfkjK6BqFv/3BhZtuwqtEQCg6532 34gwt/wlg/CPi3nbn3PWOg8= =A5Kz -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
