[Dxspider-support] Testing indicates this reflector reveals the senders actual e-mail address

[Ron Stordahl]

Simon and others

Its doubtful that my e-mail address has been harvested from this list,
however I did my testing to see if it was possible.  However Dirk has
pointed out that you must be a subscriber to read any of the postings so if
I understand this correctly our postings do not find their way to Google
etc.  Is that correct Dirk?

This looks like another technical approach to the problem:
http://software.libertine.org/tmda/

However I don't think it runs on our mail server as yet, I am looking into
it.

So thanks for putting up with my testing and thanks for the ideas about
spamcop and spamassassin.

Ron N5IN


----- Original Message -----
From: "Simon Ravnic" <simon at hamradio.si>
To: <dxspider-support at dxcluster.org>
Sent: Tuesday, May 21, 2002 1:09 PM
Subject: Re: [Dxspider-support] Testing indicates this reflector reveals the
senders actual e-mail address


> Hi Ron & others!
>
> > I am now getting so much spam on a daily basis that its getting painful
> <snip>
> >I can only play defense.
>
> But with clever defense you can make them suffer. The easiest way to do
this
> is use Spamcop (http://spamcop.net/). It goes like this. You open an
account
> and they give you special email address to where you forward all the spam
> that you receive. Before forwarding it you copy&paste in all the message
> headers (explained on site). Spamcop process incoming spam and notifies
> administrators of host relaying junk email. This doesn't reduce amount of
> spam in your mailbox but it helps fighting against it globaly.
>
> But that is just a start. SpamAssassin (http://spamassassin.org/) is
another
> great tool. This is a mail filter installed at mail server that helps
> identifying incoming spam. Based on some clever rules and techniques it
> marks incoming mail as spam and then you just set up a filter (in e.g.
> Outlook) that put's such mail directly to Trashbin. If you don't run your
> own mail server you can still put some pressure on your ISP and try to
make
> him use this.
>
> I'm using both tools and I get around two spam emails per week. All others
> are rejected (IP blocking tools) by SpamAssassin at mail server or marked
as
> spam and deleted.
>
> > Ron N5IN
>
> 73
> Simon, S53ZO
>
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