On Tue, Sep 10, 2002 at 03:01:27PM -0500, David W. Tamkin wrote:
Alan wrote,
| I have installed a pass-through address for mine but I am reluctant to
| post it into this list as there is a small minority who insist on
| replying as well as posting to the list, and then the passthrough address
| would be available for the spam address harvesters.
It's not only that; many respondents who reply only on-list will still display
your full address in their attributions.
| ( Please do not email me AS WELL as replying to the list. Personal
| email is welcome but may invoke a password autoresponder. )
I don't like "prove-you-love-me" setups any more than anyone else, but you at
least get credit for telling people in advance. That makes it not nearly so
nasty as when it comes as a surprise.
I suppose so, it simply prevents me sending any mail to that person
at all.
I have *just* started filtering junk E-Mail, a very simple set of
procmail filters gets rid of 99% of the junk, I just route all my
mailing-list mail into folders and then reject anything not To: me or
Cc: to me. The result of this filtering is that I get virtually no junk
in my inbox. I publish my E-Mail address whenever I post to lists and
when I post to Usenet. I really don't see the necessity for more
complex spam filtering - except of course by ISPs to try and reduce
the load on them, but I can't do much to help that directly.
--
Chris Green (chris(_at_)areti(_dot_)co(_dot_)uk)
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