On Thursday 05 June 2008 15:13:58 Dave Plater wrote:
John wrote:
On Thursday 05 June 2008 14:27:38 Henne Vogelsang wrote:
Hi,
On Thursday, June 05, 2008 at 12:32:28, 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.
As you can see this list is popular with all kinds of folks :)
I use two emails for this list. I receive on a yahoo pop account and send from a send only google account, due to yahoo being next to useless for sending via smtp. My only address that gets displayed on this list is the google address. I once, quite a while ago, deliberately clicked on a phishing link and since then I have had at least one spam mail every day to the yahoo adress. Each one I report to the originating IP and report the link. The whole point of this mail is that the google email address has never had spam but the yahoo address which never gets displayed on this list does. Surely if addresses were being farmed from this list, I would have received spam on the google account by now. Regards Dave P
That's a neat solution that I didn't know was available or could be set up. It needs 2 accounts on all lists. Lists could do more to help. It's an obvious hole that is used and should be closed. Sounds like it would reduce server loads if many people use 2 accounts. It's doesn't do anything about the other problem I mentioned though. I've always used one of my isp email addresses and filtered much like a firewall should - if I send something out something should come back etc. Kmail can nearly do all that is needed. It copes with all but a few. I've never clicked on a phishing link but do send most of them to the appropriate place. I also do the same thing with some spam if it looks as if it may catch other people out. John -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org