Shriramana, On Saturday 03 September 2005 21:14, Shriramana Sharma wrote:
Sunday 04 Sep 2005 08:49 samaye Randall R Schulz alekhiit:
Such as? For all we know, you're collecting addresses and doing unspeakable things with them, too.
Of course I'm not doing any such thing!
Can you prove it? Casting aspersions could be an attempt to create a distraction or plausible deniability. The fact is, there's no way to know which of the thousands of subscribers to this list might have nefarious intent. Nor could you trace the diversion of email addresses to the perpetrator. If you cannot tolerate the acquisition of an email address by spammers, you have to do two things: 1) Make it an unguessable string of characters ('cause some spammers just generate email names and send messages to them without any idea of whether they're actually valid accounts) and 2) Guard it extremely jealosly. The only way to assure the latter is not to use it. The more people who receive messages from that address or otherwise see it, the greater the risk that it will leak out. You certainly cannot ever use it on a public mailing list, on Usenet or a bulletin board. C'est la vie.
The only thing to do about spam is dispense with it promptly and with a minimum of effort. My ISP does an excellent job of labelling it via SpamAssassin.
OK I setup SpamAssassin with KMail just now, but does it work with IMAP accounts?
How would I know. As I said, my ISP uses it to lable email before I get it. They have the option of shunting it aside or deleting it immediately, but I don't like that. There's the rare false positive. Very rare, of late, but still.
reward senders of UCE, it would eventually cease.
UCE?
Unsolicited Commercial Email. Randall Schulz