Defending yourself



On 05/09/2011 11:00 PM, Jeroen van Aart wrote:
[snip]

This must be the most spam infested mailing list I have subscribed to,
and I am only subscribed for half a day, 3 or 4 spam emails in about 8
hours. Has this list list been forgotten by its maintainer(s)?


Aren't you running your own spam filter? Defense In Depth (Debian's filter, my ISP's filter and my own filter) means that usually zero spams per week make it to my D-U folder,

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"Neither the wisest constitution nor the wisest laws will secure
the liberty and happiness of a people whose manners are universally
corrupt."
Samuel Adams, essay in The Public Advertiser, 1749


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