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Re: Email Harvesting

Christoph

10/23/2003 12:07:00 PM

> From: Nikolai Weibull
...
> heh, ok, so either we have a harvester, or some #!@#!$^@ on
> the list is distributing Swen to us? I recently had to
> change my email provider and address, since my old account
> got totally destroyed by Swen when it was launched. Now, the
> only address i get Swen to still is the address I'm using
> now. It's sad that it has to be this way, I don't want to
> leave this mailing list, especially not by outside force,
> nikolai


Hi,

Since the gateway news => mail is broken I have an incentive
to resubscribe to the mailing list. As a fringe benefit I got
to test the following setup (which was only send to the news
server)


> 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"
> ---


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/Christoph

Please send off list mail to
'my_mail@gmy.net'.gsub(/y/,'x')