I was disgruntled with the amount of spam I was getting, so I started setting up accounts for the various mailing lists I listen to. I use rspec at showcase60.com to read the mail here. Along with the rspec news that comes over this channel, I''m getting more and more spam addressed to this same account, which means that the open way this list passes around email addresses is being read or fed to spammers. I suggest we rethink our mailing lists so that we''re not also subjecting RSpec enthusiasts with tips on various medical enhancements and financial products. Maybe we should use a Google group instead, where they don''t broadcast email addresses in open formats with their services. Maybe someone else has a better idea about this. David
I made this address for mailing lists only, but as it is I only have 14 spam messages at the moment... Nathan Sutton fowlduck at gmail.com rspec 1.1 rspec_on_rails 1.1 rails 2.0.2 On Jan 18, 2008, at 12:03 PM, David Richards wrote:> I was disgruntled with the amount of spam I was getting, so I started > setting up accounts for the various mailing lists I listen to. I use > rspec at showcase60.com to read the mail here. Along with the rspec > news that comes over this channel, I''m getting more and more spam > addressed to this same account, which means that the open way this > list passes around email addresses is being read or fed to spammers. > > I suggest we rethink our mailing lists so that we''re not also > subjecting RSpec enthusiasts with tips on various medical > enhancements and financial products. Maybe we should use a Google > group instead, where they don''t broadcast email addresses in open > formats with their services. Maybe someone else has a better idea > about this. > > David > _______________________________________________ > rspec-users mailing list > rspec-users at rubyforge.org > http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/rspec-users
From: rspec-users-bounces at rubyforge.org [mailto:rspec-users-bounces at rubyforge.org] On Behalf Of Nathan Sutton Sent: Friday, January 18, 2008 10:22 AM To: rspec-users Subject: Re: [rspec-users] Spam Protection>I made this address for mailing lists only, but as it is I only have >14 spam messages at the moment...What''s weird is that I''ve been using the same email address since 1996, I''ve turned off spam filtering by my ISP, and yet I get very, very little spam these days (maybe 1-2/day). Wonder if it''s being filtered upstream? ///ark
> Maybe someone else has a better idea about this.Use gmail. I get spam, but I never see it. see http://www.bofh.org.uk/articles/2007/09/26/slide-of-the-conference Pat
On 19/01/2008, at 05:27 , Mark Wilden wrote:> What''s weird is that I''ve been using the same email address since > 1996, I''ve > turned off spam filtering by my ISP, and yet I get very, very > little spam > these days (maybe 1-2/day).I''ve been using the same address since 1994, and every time I get spam I complain to the appropriate abuse@ and postmaster@ addresses. I''m not as fortunate as you, today for example I have about 12 spam messages amongst a veritable ocean of articles from mailing lists - the signal to noise ratio is about 20:1 If people are setting up accounts specifically for mailing lists, it might be worth adding a filter to immediately trash messages that don''t look like they came from the list. For example, if you have a specific "rspec-users" mail account, filter all messages to the trash if they don''t contain "[rspec-users]" in the subject, or "rspec- users at rubyforge.org" in "TO:". In an ideal world there would be no spam, but that''s not going to happen until we rid the world of greedy or impure people. I expect that to be at about the same time that Skynet takes over and flying pigs start snowball fights with the legions of hell. Alex