Re: Spam due to MHonArc list archives?

[Gunnar Hjalmarsson <noreply@xxxxxxxxx>]

Earl Hood wrote:
> Gunnar Hjalmarsson wrote:
> > I have just deserted my main email address because of the volume
> > of spam that is being sent to it.
>
> I have no plans of deserting my main mail address, and I receive 
> over 300 spam messages a day.

How do you stand it?? I had about one tenth of that, and still found
it worth the inconvenience of changing address.

> Personally, I think that people who are concerned about receiving 
> spam, should do what you are now doing, do not provide a real
> address to public messages.

Technically it's real, even if it forwards to /dev/null. :)  But yes,
I'm posting from that address, and by providing a link to a contact
form, I'm still easily reachable via the list messages (including the
archived ditto). I find it to be a decent solution, and I won't be
affected personally of how this list is archived in the future.

> However, I understand the problems spam has on people.  Therefore, 
> I will take a poll (via a separate message to the list) on what
> other users think.

Thanks for taking my concern seriously, Earl.

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Gunnar Hjalmarsson
Email: http://www.gunnar.cc/cgi-bin/contact.pl