Re: getting viruses/spam after posting to this list
On Thu, Oct 16, 2003 at 10:56:13AM +0100, Eliot Stock wrote:
> After my first post to this list last night, I woke up this morning to find 40
> helpful "MS security updates" in my inbox.
>
> How are other people dealing with this? Does the list consider this a problem,
> or is it just up to me to fight this at my server? If so a pointer to any URLs
> that lay out all the options for server-side spam and virus blocking would be
> helpful, maybe it's time I installed something. Is obfuscating addresses on the
> list pointless because harvesters aren't fooled? What's the score?
What I don't understand is, once I accidentally posted with my "real
email". Immediately, spam.
I used to post with tb.nospam@<domain>, and didn't get any spam for a
couple months. Then, one. So I switched, and so far, zero.
I wonder why they leave this one alone. (Shrug.)
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