anti-spam measures

anti-spam measures

[Byron Hale]

Hi,

I have been receiving as many as 1000 SPAM's/day.

I notice that the Guile-developers list does not have any identifying header.
I would like to see one, so that I know where an email belongs,
without having to open it immediately. If I can get all my lists to
do the same, then I can junk SPAM much more easily,
and without opening it.

Secondarily, I have put restrictive filters on domain name recipients.
Later I plan to remove my current email address. Before I do that,
I want to see my lists do something like make it difficult to harvest
email addresses from lists. That could be by mangling the return
address so that human intervention was needed.

Any list that does not adopt these measures will ultimately be dropped.
I just can't take so much SPAM, 4 or 5 times the volume of email
that can efficiently be handled..

Best Regards,

Byron Hale 




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Re: anti-spam measures

[Andreas Rottmann]

Byron Hale <byron.hale@einfo.com> writes:

> Hi,
>
> I have been receiving as many as 1000 SPAM's/day.
>
> I notice that the Guile-developers list does not have any identifying header.
> I would like to see one, so that I know where an email belongs,
>

This is _in_the_header_.

List-Id: Developers list for Guile, the GNU extensibility library
	<guile-devel.gnu.org>

I guess you meant a subject tag. I'd consider that an
ugliness. Regardsless of that, maybe it's time for you to set up a
decent spamfilter.

Andy
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Re: anti-spam measures

[Marius Vollmer]

Byron Hale <byron.hale@einfo.com> writes:

> I notice that the Guile-developers list does not have any
> identifying header.

Doesn't the header "To: guile-devel@gnu.org" suffice?  Also, we have

    List-Id: Developers list for Guile, the GNU extensibility library
            <guile-devel.gnu.org>
    List-Unsubscribe: <http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/guile-devel>,
            <mailto:guile-devel-request@gnu.org?subject=unsubscribe>
    List-Archive: <http://mail.gnu.org/pipermail/guile-devel>
    List-Post: <mailto:guile-devel@gnu.org>
    List-Help: <mailto:guile-devel-request@gnu.org?subject=help>
    List-Subscribe: <http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/guile-devel>,
            <mailto:guile-devel-request@gnu.org?subject=subscribe>

all of which could be used to identify messages to the list.

> Secondarily, I have put restrictive filters on domain name recipients.
> Later I plan to remove my current email address. Before I do that,
> I want to see my lists do something like make it difficult to harvest
> email addresses from lists. That could be by mangling the return
> address so that human intervention was needed.

I don't understand.  Should the list reflector on the GNU machines
mangle your From: header?  Can't you do that yourself when sending to
the list?  The archives hide your email address already.

> Any list that does not adopt these measures will ultimately be dropped.
> I just can't take so much SPAM, 4 or 5 times the volume of email
> that can efficiently be handled..

I use bogofilter with great success.

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Re: anti-spam measures

[Rob Browning]

Marius Vollmer <mvo@zagadka.de> writes:

>> Any list that does not adopt these measures will ultimately be dropped.
>> I just can't take so much SPAM, 4 or 5 times the volume of email
>> that can efficiently be handled..
>
> I use bogofilter with great success.

I've also had extremely good luck with spamassassin.  I've been amazed
at how well it works.

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