Actually I don't think spam management is off topic, and even if it were I'm not on mutt-ot and not going to sign up. It's completely natural that off-topic discussions arise from on-topic threads on mailing lists, and I think trying to reroute them is largely pointless and a bit misguided. I don't think it should be discouraged until a particular thread reaches the level of being annoying. In my experience, trying to reroute threads mostly just kills a potentially interesting thread, which usually is at least marginally related anyway. I'm pretty sure I'm not the only one on this list who thinks that way. Anyway... On Thu, May 17, 2007 at 03:10:19PM +0200, Rado S wrote: > > 4. Since adopting my new method of spam management (now some 5+ > > years old, if I'm not mistaken), I receive at most a total of > > about *3 spams per day* to all my personal e-mail addresses > > combined, *completely unfiltered* for spam. > > How can this happen, it should be totally free of spam then? There are a few ways it happens. Some people use broken mail clients, and the clients have exploits that gather all e-mail addresses in the user's address book, and send them off to a spammer (or someone who sells them to a spammer). Another way is certain friends, with good intentions, disregard requests not to send your e-mail address to e-card websites and other such spam-collecting web sites. A third way is when organizations you WANT to receive mail from decide it's OK to share the address you use for that with someone else. For example, I get e-mail about shows in my area from one organization. But apparently they've decided it's ok to give my address to some of their partners. Not cool, but not much I can do about it if I want to keep getting mail from them. Fortunately, this actually doesn't happen that often (I consider myself lucky). Finally, someone you know might (accidentally or maliciously) post your address in a mailing list or usenet post. The address trolls are going to find it... In actuality, most of the spam I do get goes to an old address that used to be associated with an OSS project. I never really used the account, so the spam I do get from it is minimal, but nonzero. I do get a small amount of legitimate mail to that address that I care about, at least in theory, so I can't actually shut it off. But like I said, I get so little spam, I can deal with it manually, for the most part without even thinking about it. > > What would it take? > > A spammers-free world, no free (of cost) eMail. > Fix the origin, then you don't have to fight the symptoms. That's an ideal that I'd love to see, but I know it'll never happen. The mailing list management software I described would (I think) go a LONG way to making address trollers' jobs a lot harder, though. -- sig deleted due to evil reply-to: header
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