Re: lists.debian.org vs google groups
Sumo Wrestler (or just ate too much) wrote:
Pascal Hakim wrote:
Making people subscribe is a barrier to entry, and we want to make it as
easy as possible for people to contribute. [...]
That makes sense to me. I think that some people are confused about the
difference between spam sent to their inboxes and spam sent the list.
Some people don't know how to filter list messages to a separate folder,
so when a spammer sends mail to their inboxes, they think it comes from
the list.
I'm a list subscriber, despite the open posting, and I can testify that
almost no spam makes onto the list.
Unfortunately, when people post to the list, spammers get their e-mail
addresses, and most people don't know how to create "smart" e-mail
addresses.
My e-mail address is "rather uninviting" to spammers :)
Apropos of this, it could be done better.
sumo.wrestler.0rj82m+no.spam.abuse@earthlink.net
has a valid domain, which results in actual sending and delivery
of an e-mail. Robots which mine this address will flood the net
with e-mails which must be discarded by earthlink.net.
A better solution to this is to use something like
sumo.wrestler@NOSPAMearthlink.net
This results in the sender being unable to find the destination,
and eventually giving up on sending the email in the first
place.
Just my $0.02 worth.
Mike
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