Re: To SPAM or not to SPAM...

I post to this list occasionally, and yet get maybe one spam email a month.
YMMV. Don't tell anyone, but I got a line on a great deal in Nigeria.

Rick

pgsql-general-owner(at)postgresql(dot)org wrote on 06/07/2005 09:56:16 PM:

> Wes wrote:
> > It seems that for some time this list has been mirrored to Usenet
without
> > changing the originating email addresses. Since Usenet is spammers
Nirvana,
> > that one little act results in everyone that posts to the postgres
lists
> > becoming SPAM fodder.
> >
> > Can something not be changed in the mailinglist-Usnet gateway such that
the
> > originating email addresses are either removed or scrambled so that
posting
> > to the mailing list doesn't result in your email address being
plastered all
> > over Usenet? People that intentionally post to Usenet generally don't
use a
> > replyable email address.
>
> It's not going to save you anything. If you post to a list such as
> this, there are archives of the posts that the spammers can get at just
> as easily as Usenet.
>
> --
> Until later, Geoffrey
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