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 :)
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.
Not this discussion again. Please search the list archives for reply-to.
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.
Setting an Reply-To is not obfuscating any other address in the mail so i dont know how you would defeat address collection with this. That is exactly what I have just said. The originators email address is always in the emails source code.
Why isn't it all stripped out by the lists server?
What exactly do you mean with "all"?
Henne
-- Henne Vogelsang, openSUSE. Everybody has a plan, until they get hit. - Mike Tyson
If the server took the title, message and attachments and then repackaged them in a mail sent by itself and with "reply to" also set to itself the originators email address would not be in the email source. The tracking information wouldn't be either. You might wonder why I would suggest removing the tracking information too. I do not think it would be wise to elaborate on that on this or any other list. It can be seriously abused. It is sometimes too. John -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org