I made my first post ever with this mail address to this list yesterday, and already today I receive spam on it. Not such a big deal, since this address is only used for receiving list mail, so anything that isn't to any of the lists is crap per se. But it's still no fun.
I'm aware that a similar post was made very recently, but it seems like someone is eavesdropping, continously scanning the mail archive or something.
It is more likely to be a "bot" - a program looking for as many email addresses as it can find. A program like this could be subscribed to the list and indexing every address, or perhaps picking addresses up through archives (a google-search for "gentoo-user archive" produces 3 big archives in the top 10).
Could anyone think of a resolution to this problem?
Obfurscation of the mail archive?
Not likely. The only way to do that would be to completely remove the "From:" header or something. I suppose thats an advantage of forum-like systems, email addresses arent so easily available.
Still, you could a spam filter - if configured correctly, they help a lot. I use one called DisSpam which is fairly simplistic. I've written about it here:
http://www.reactivated.net/disspam.php
Daniel.
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