Re: how do you protect from spammers in Debian lists?
On Mon, May 23, 2005 at 03:54:15PM -0600, s. keeling wrote:
> Incoming from michael:
> > 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.
> >
> > but isn't much of the spam going to d-users@debian (as opposed to you
> > directly)? that's what bothers me a bit...
>
> It's going to debian-user@lists.debian.org, and once any subscriber
> to that list who reports spam sees it, Spammy's account(s)[*] are in
> mail-abuse heaven. It's a feature.
>
> Running away from spammers (munging your email address, & etc.)
> doesn't stop them. The only thing that might is making it all as
> inconvenient as possible to stay in the racket. Force them to run
> around recreating infrastructure every time they use it, and maybe
> they'll get a clue.
>
> Get an account at Spamcop.net and LART some yourself.
>
>
> [*] Excepting APNIC IP's, of course. Those you can safely /dev/null
> at the earliest opportunity. If I saw any evidence of APNIC ISPs
> killing abusers' accounts, I'd care about them too. I haven't, so
> I don't.
>
What worries me is the spam that is sent out under my name. Just
recently I've had a few messages to the address I'm using now from
what seemed to be genuine addresses (universities, often) listing a
dozen or two unknown users they couldn't deliver to. The
undeliverable message was some piece of German pollitical spam
(pretty nasty from the titles although I haven't actually read any).
Am I going to get blacklisted when people report this to Spamcop or
take other anti-spam measures? Can I do anything about it?
Cheers,
David
--
David Jardine
"Running Debian GNU/Linux and
loving every minute of it." -L. von Sacher-M.(1835-1895)
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