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Re: Email Harvesting

Ralph Pöllath

10/19/2003 12:30:00 PM

Hi,

> I've been receiving a lot of Swen emails to my ruby-talk address
> lately.
> This mailing alias is rather new and so my guess is that this list is
> actively being harvested for emails. Is there something we can do to
> fix this? This is getting boring, my email bandwidth quota is being
> eaten by these goddam 150kb emails.

That's because this list is mirrored to usenet (see
http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&group=comp...
) with all email addresses intact. I also find this annoying, and
wasn't aware of the fact when I subscribed (probably because I didn't
read the fine print).

Possible solutions, none of which I find appealing:
- Stop mirroring the list to usenet: Would keep usenet users from
participating
- Remove email addresses from posts before mirroring: Makes it harder
to reply off-list
- Set up another list that isn't mirrored
- Use the list via usenet using a fake email address

Cheers,
-Ralph.


1 Answer

Christoph

10/19/2003 2:26:00 PM

0

Ralph Pöllath wrote:
....
> Possible solutions, none of which I find appealing:
> - Stop mirroring the list to usenet: Would keep usenet users from
> participating
> - Remove email addresses from posts before mirroring: Makes it harder
> to reply off-list
> - Set up another list that isn't mirrored
> - Use the list via usenet using a fake email address

How about this solution: Create a dedicated (non-brain dead) free email
account: In the anti-spam option section mark appropriate setting to
refuse accepting emails flagged as spam. Put ruby-talk (and possible other)
email address(es) in the white-list and everything else (meaning
everything)
in the blacklist. For accepting off list mail adjust the return address of
your
dedicated ruby-talk account to
myremove_this_partreal_email@address.com and
add a signature like

----
Send off list replies to
myremove_this_partreal_email@address.com
where you remove the "remove_this_part"
---

/Christoph