On Thursday 05 June 2008 12:40:09 Evens Garde wrote:
John wrote:
After joining this board I noticed that my spam rocketted. I've noticed the same sort of effect on other boards but not so marked.
I've never seen any problem associated with an opensuse list.
What else do you use this address for?
Some boards encourage people to use the list address for "to" and "reply to" that way everybody always gets to see the answer. This list always always sets "reply to" to my own email address.
My biggets concern though is that there are obviously email address collection bots / people kicking about on lists and even changing reply to etc doesn't defeat them as the originators email address is still buried in the source. Why isn't it all stripped out by the lists server? Spam is a problem to many people including isp's.
John
I use it as a general email address. Spam has been stable at around 200 per week for some time. After joining this list it's a lot higher. As I have said it's something I've noticed before. I have other email accounts and have noticed the same effect on these too. I have one that I never use and get none on that at all. I have another I am careful about where I do use it and maybe get 1 or 2 a month from name guessers. That's why I don't use my full name anywhere. I've been using email for about 15years and have seen how spammers progress. I used to get some mails address to john1 to 10,000 etc they are a little more sophisticated these days. I've used john_82/john82@ somewhere ever since msn started up in the uk. Basically it's an obvious root for such people to take and some clearly do. Fortunately Kmail filters can remove the vast bulk of it but they could do with some slight enhancements and I still have to scan through them just in case. Pointlessly in most cases. John -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org