From: "Joseph C. Lininger" <jbahm@pcdesk.net>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
Subject: Re: Another list question
Date: Tue, 26 Jul 2005 19:46:21 -0600 (Mountain Daylight Time) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.WNT.4.63.0507261945320.3480@merlin> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050726234619.GB21552@blackbox>
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Also, don't forget that if you change your From address, most list
managers will reject your message. They allow posts from subscribed
users only. Mailman also has a feature that conceals addresses in
archives which helps.
- --
It's not one damn thing after another, it's the same damn thing over and
over. (History repeats itself)
Joseph C. Lininger
jbahm@pcdesk.net
Verification: 5eab38a77ac40416e075be8f50607ff7
And so it came to pass that on Tue, 26 Jul 2005, Kenny Hitt said
> Hi.
>
> I've seen the same advice. Usually, it suggest changing the address
so
> it is more difficult for software to figure out it is an address. I
> don't know of any option in mutt that would allow this to happen
> automatically. The advice is in files from years back and refered to
> news groups.
>
> You're right about the info still being in the headers. Unless the
list
> software removes it before archiving, you can get the info by
searching
> the archives of a list.
>
> Basically, I don't worry about it. All my addresses have been around
> long enough that I will get spam on all of them. I just make sure to
> teach my spamassassin to ässassinate" any new spam, make sure my
> mail server can't be used by spammers, and go on about my life.
>
> Hope this helps.
> Kenny
>
> On Tue, Jul 26, 2005 at 12:35:28PM -0700, Sean McMahon wrote:
>> someone from another mailing list I'm on warned me to not quote the
full email
>> addresses of people when I send mail to the list. This individual
stated that
>> spammers use addresses from list archives to spam people. Is this a
real
>> problem and is there information on how to properly filter address
display for
>> lists in mutt or pine? Obviously, something would have to show up
in the
>> headers of a message for the mail to be sent.
>>
>>
>> _______________________________________________
>> Speakup mailing list
>> Speakup@braille.uwo.ca
>> http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
>
> _______________________________________________
> Speakup mailing list
> Speakup@braille.uwo.ca
> http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
>
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