on Thu, Jan 03, 2002 at 01:43:46AM -0500, Alec (alec1976nyc@yahoo.com) wrote: > Hi > > Debian mailing lists are mirrored on (interfaced to) USENET under > linux.debian.*, and our email addresses aren't even scrambled! USENET is > probably the number one source for the email address snooping spammers. Can > they catch up with all of us one day? Deal with it. I've got a six year old email address that's posted daily to websites, mailing lists, and Usenet groups. I get spam -- about ten messages a day (up about fourfold over the past year) -- out of several hundred mails received either directly or via lists. I filter it with procmail, none of it actually hits my inbox. There are a number of systems which will perform an equivalent function either locally (razor, mailfilter, etc.), or as a service (Spamcop). Yahoo has some rudimentary filtering. My suggestion would be to get more control over your email or use a subscription service (e.g.: Spamcop) if you really care about this issue. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <kmself@ix.netcom.com> http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? Home of the brave http://gestalt-system.sourceforge.net/ Land of the free We freed Dmitry! Boycott Adobe! Repeal the DMCA! http://www.freesklyarov.org Geek for Hire http://kmself.home.netcom.com/resume.html
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