Re: how do you protect from spammers in Debian lists?

From: michael (linux_at_networkingnewsletter.org.uk)
Date: 05/23/05

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Date: Mon, 23 May 2005 21:54:10 +0100

    On Fri, 2005-05-13 at 13:23 +0200, Dennis Stosberg wrote:
    > Am Freitag, 13. Mai 2005 12:20 schrieb Nacho:
    >
    > > So I think it's very easy for anybody to automatically extract
    > > all of the email addresses from the web archive.
    >
    > It _is_ very easy and many spammers do that.
    >
    > Your best option probably is to use a second email address for
    > mailing lists only.
    >
    > I use lists@stosberg.net to subscribe to this list (and others),
    > and I have a procmail-based filter on my mail server, which
    > filters out all mails not coming over one of the mailing lists.
    > Most mailing lists insert a "X-Mailing-List:" header into the
    > mails, which makes filtering very easy.

    but isn't much of the spam going to d-users@debian (as opposed to you
    directly)? that's what bothers me a bit... 

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