Re: Including Email Address in the Reply in Mailing-list

[Jean Louis <bugs@gnu.support>]

* Husain Alshehhi <husain@alshehhi.io> [2021-04-02 18:58]:
> 
> Hello all,
> 
> I just noticed that some of us here, when replying, include the email of
> the sender of the previous email in the response as part of body of the
> email. This email address shows up in plain text in the mailing
> list[1]. This is certainly done without any ill-intentions, but that
> could cause the email address to receive quite a bit of spam if spammers
> crawl these pages.
> 
> I suggest refraining from doing so, and instead use the name. Please let
> me know what you think.

I don't think it is a problem that you can solve by directing people
on what is to be done. It will work with few people, but is always
error prone. People read mailing list with various email clients,
correcting the email or removing it by directing people who reply is
simple not feasible. As you see, mailing list is pretty spam free, so
either moderators do the work, or spam filters do the work. You can do
the same with your domain, Protonmail is hosting it for you, and maybe
they have spam filter or similar, there is server side check against
spammer IP database and various other techniques. Spam that
fraudulently originates from your domain would be, in my opinion,
detected by Protonmail and placed in Spam folder due to ~all in the
SPF record.

alshehhi.io.		299	IN	TXT	"v=spf1 include:_spf.protonmail.ch mx ~all"


-- 
Jean

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