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Not to stir the pot, but I notice my email address has recently been harvested from this list for spamming purposes. This email address is unique and not used for anything else. I'd distinguish this from spam sent to the mailing list itself, which is obviously different. Is there anything further that could be done to prevent this? -- Dave

...eal with a multitude of unique and ad-hoc specified addresses for every vendor/supplier and interaction point I deal with. In short, if you use a public mailing list, expect that the address you use for it will be discovered and abused by the nefarious marketeers of the High Bit Seas. Cordially, =Malcky=

...c > specified addresses for every vendor/supplier and interaction point I deal with. > > In short, if you use a public mailing list, expect that the address you use > for it will be discovered and abused by the nefarious marketeers of the High > Bit Seas. > > Cordially, > =Malcky= Since he uses a unique address, it is trivial to write a rule to ensure msgs come from dovecot.org and discard everything else, I do that on LKML, works a treat. This address alone is a mailing list only address, direct messages go to junk folder, which I visually scan occasionally, and if I dont...

...y vendor/supplier and interaction point I deal with. > > > > In short, if you use a public mailing list, expect that the address you use > > for it will be discovered and abused by the nefarious marketeers of the High > > Bit Seas. > > > > Cordially, > > =Malcky= > > Since he uses a unique address, it is trivial to write a rule to ensure > msgs come from dovecot.org and discard everything else, I do that on > LKML, works a treat. This address alone is a mailing list only address, > direct messages go to junk folder, which I visually scan oc...