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Re: how do you protect from spammers in Debian lists?



On Fri, 2005-05-13 at 13:23 +0200, Dennis Stosberg wrote:
> Am Freitag, 13. Mai 2005 12:20 schrieb Nacho:
> 
> > So I think it's very easy for anybody to automatically extract
> > all of the email addresses from the web archive.
> 
> It _is_ very easy and many spammers do that.
> 
> Your best option probably is to use a second email address for 
> mailing lists only.  
> 
> I use lists@stosberg.net to subscribe to this list (and others), 
> and I have a procmail-based filter on my mail server, which 
> filters out all mails not coming over one of the mailing lists.  
> Most mailing lists insert a "X-Mailing-List:" header into the 
> mails, which makes filtering very easy.

but isn't much of the spam going to d-users@debian (as opposed to you
directly)? that's what bothers me a bit...



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