On Tuesday 18 February 2003 12:25 pm, Tass wrote:
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> ----SUBJECT ----> Re: curious new posts [OT]
> On 2/18/2003
> I was just minding my own business when
>
> John Nichel wrote:
> >)Would be nothing new. Spammers have long used mailing list archives to
> >)get addresses.
>
> Understood.
> It has been a long-time practice. I was just giving an "FYI" that it was
> happening, and just in case the powers that be here might be interested in
> these kinds of uses/abuses of their facilities to gauge if they need/want
> to do something about it.
I think one easy way to deal with this is:
1. Create one new account just for public mailing-lists.
You can even use just generic e-mail address that are free out there, eg.
hotpop.com (probably find that offer POP / IMAP service ).
Either:
2a. Pull the e-mail down using fetchmail, and filter using procmail.
or
2b. Filter the e-mail on server, using something like "mailfilter".
The filter rule can be very easy:
DENY everything except the ones that you explicitly allow for mailing list. So
you can filter for eg: Header list-Id, From, etc.
Both procmail and mailfilter capable of this.
The drawback is if someone from the list want to e-mail you directly you won't
get the mail.
RDB
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