On Friday 06 June 2008 02:59:43 Rajko M. wrote:
On Thursday 05 June 2008 12:25:24 pm John wrote:
You are overestimating the amount of work spammers are willing to put into collecting 1300 addresses :)
The people who make use of the tracking info in the email aren't spammers. They are into other things. Some times malicious things.
John,
Henne is the list owner, the one that you can contact if you have any problem, but not this one.
You fears seems to come from not really understanding the problem. From emails malicious people can't extract much, but from other sources they can. They don't spend time collecting bits on mail lists where visitors have wallet, but probably not very attractive, they go after credit card data and similar information.
Try to set your email address preferences to receive only mails that have opensuse.org somewhere in the header (To, CC) and it should cure the problem. I hope that tiscali.co.uk has some way to set user preferences, if not Kmail can do that for you.
-- Regards, Rajko http://en.opensuse.org/Portal needs helpful hands.
I have repeatedly said that I do cope with it. All I have said is that there is no need for people to have to cope with it if the list server handles mail in another way. I cope anyway. I am also pointing out that spammers do sometimes gather information this way. This is factual. Fortunately the majority of spammers aren't very intelligent. It also a fact that email headers contain information that defeats one of the major useful aspects of firewalls. Henne may well be the list owner but he can not say that the changes can not be made only that suse are not going to make them. :) Unless he is some sort of comedian :). No offence meant. I'm also glad to here about the send only account. I might find that useful in the future. Techniques used by the more intelligent spammers eventually spread. Some outfits use them like mail shots. They don't cost much and only a few need to reply to make it worthwhile. John -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org