spam

[Peter Connolly]

And, I forgot to mention another benefit: you'll never, ever be
tempted to set your GMail maillist account to vacation auto-reply!

On 6/21/07, Peter Connolly <psconnolly at gmail.com> wrote:
> This works for me as an effective counter-measure to maillist spam:
>
> I avoid the maillist spam syndrome by having a separate GMail account
> for my maillists.  Not only is GMail free and has an enormous inbox
> (~2GB), but it has GREAT spam filters built in (which you can tune
> further) AND it is pretty good at grouping maillist threads together
> too.
>
> pc
>
> On 6/21/07, maillist at sios.ca <maillist at sios.ca> wrote:
> > I did not realise until I checked one of my spam filters today how much
> > spam I was receiving because I have posted on this list.  Someone on the
> > list seems to feel it is a demonstration of their IT skill to be able to
> > harvest email addresses on a mail list.
> > The only way to deal with these internet terrorists is to "let" them
> > win  by no longer using email lists.  Must be a great satisfaction to
> > them to be able able to stop the free exchange of advice, information
> > and ideas.
> > Un-subscribing from this may not be  much of  a loss to to the list but,
> > when some person decides to use the list to troll for email addresses to
> > spam the simplest thing to do is just stop using the email address I use
> > for the list.
> > Spammers misuse of internet features such as mail lists are effectively
> > killing other users enjoyment and use of  the net.
> >
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