Thread: email addreses on postgresql.org
Hi guys, Is there some way we can avoid putting our email addresses on articles we post? Just want to minimise spam... Chris
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi, On Fri, 5 Dec 2003, Christopher Kings-Lynne wrote: > > Is there some way we can avoid putting our email addresses on articles > we post? Just want to minimise spam... Instead, what about replacing @ sign with " at " ? i.e. http://www.postgresql.org/events/164.html Regards, - -- Devrim GUNDUZ devrim@gunduz.org devrim.gunduz@linux.org.tr http://www.TDMSoft.com http://www.gunduz.org -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/0Ekgtl86P3SPfQ4RAs+0AJ0YN4GWDJLwEJTbXdrsmAWZ+eS8bACfc3Ye SSCb1omswxmOn8QHirsw1fQ= =QPUk -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
devrim@gunduz.org says... > Instead, what about replacing @ sign with " at " ? I think that the harvesters of email addresses are well beyond that at this stage - they certainly have my email address and look at the way I've mangled it in my .sig. I have incredible amounts of spam - I'm at a loss as to what to do! Paul... -- plinehan x__AT__x yahoo x__DOT__x com C++ Builder 5 SP1, Interbase 6.0.1.6 IBX 5.04 W2K Pro Please do not top-post.
--On Friday, December 05, 2003 12:59:19 +0000 Paul Ganainm <paulsnewsgroups@hotmail.com> wrote: > > devrim@gunduz.org says... > > >> Instead, what about replacing @ sign with " at " ? > > > I think that the harvesters of email addresses are well beyond that at > this stage - they certainly have my email address and look at the way > I've mangled it in my .sig. > > I have incredible amounts of spam - I'm at a loss as to what to do! > I've taken the technology approach: 1) large number of DNSBL's in my mail server config 2) SpamAssassin (http://www.spamassassin.org/) 3) personal fecal roster of bad domains/ip's/etc 4) reporting stuff that gets through that. LER > > Paul... > > > -- > > plinehan x__AT__x yahoo x__DOT__x com > > C++ Builder 5 SP1, Interbase 6.0.1.6 IBX 5.04 W2K Pro > > Please do not top-post. > > > ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- > TIP 6: Have you searched our list archives? > > http://archives.postgresql.org > -- Larry Rosenman http://www.lerctr.org/~ler Phone: +1 972-414-9812 E-Mail: ler@lerctr.org US Mail: 1905 Steamboat Springs Drive, Garland, TX 75044-6749
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On Fri, Dec 05, 2003 at 12:59:19PM -0000, Paul Ganainm wrote: > devrim@gunduz.org says... > > > Instead, what about replacing @ sign with " at " ? > > I think that the harvesters of email addresses are well beyond that at > this stage - they certainly have my email address and look at the way > I've mangled it in my .sig. > > I have incredible amounts of spam - I'm at a loss as to what to do! Have you tried any of the bayesian filters? I have two watching this account (bogofilter and spamassasin), and since september 24 I have 19800 valid messages and 11940 spam messages. There have been less than 20 false negatives (they are so rare that I haven't keep track of them) and 2 false positives: one from Amazon.com and the other from p22 type foundy, both of which I'm subscribed to, both of which really look a lot like spam :-) (In fact I have a third filter, home-made bayesian, but the incoming stream has already been cleaned up by the other two, so it doesn't catch anything - it was catching a very good percentage before the other two were installed). Sounds impressive, doesn't it? I am very well impressed. HTH, -- Alvaro Herrera (<alvherre[@]dcc.uchile.cl>) "Los dioses no protegen a los insensatos. �stos reciben protecci�n de otros insensatos mejor dotados" (Luis Wu, Mundo Anillo)
On Fri, Dec 05, 2003 at 16:21:30 +0800, Christopher Kings-Lynne <chriskl@familyhealth.com.au> wrote: > > Is there some way we can avoid putting our email addresses on articles > we post? Just want to minimise spam... If you mail client can handle it, you could use the mailing list email address in the from header and use your subscribed address for the envelope sender address (so that your posts aren't held for moderation). Another option would be to use email addresses that you will only look at if they are used within a date range or with a specific subject.