Off Topic, But List Related -- Tired of Getting Spammed Via

[Sean 'Shaleh' Perry]

>:
>: Most likely they are eating your address from either a) subscribing to eat
>: addresses, b) web crawling the online archive or c) the usenet postings.
> 
> So far so good. Nothing new there.
> 
>: public lists lead to spam.  You get used to it or you try to
>: control it coming
>: in.  Changing this list won't help.
> 
> "Get used to it"?!?!? You're kidding...
> 

no, I am not.  I get over 600 mails a day, the ten or so that are spam are
meaningless.  My mail gets filtered by mailing list and a few other criterion
so the spam lands in my inbox and is immediately recognizable.  I just
highlight it a few at a time and *poof* gone.  Just like i do the paper spam
that gets mailed to me every day.

> I beg to differ.  Perhaps you didn't read about Shibboleth.  Clear text
> addresses do not appear anywhere in the messages unless the (l)user writes
> it in the message body.
> 

as Oleg points out this only reduces the chances and does nothing to stop
people who subscribe to reap addresses.  The more you try to stop spammers the
smarter they get.