Re: [SLE] spammers attached to the SuSE list

From: LinuxWorld999 (linuxworld999_at_yahoo.co.uk)
Date: 08/31/03

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Date: Sun, 31 Aug 2003 07:49:11 +0100

    On Tuesday 08 July 2003 16:54, gary wrote:
    > On Tue, Jul 08, 2003 at 10:45:16AM -0500 or thereabouts, Paul Benjamin
    wrote:
    > > I have been following this mailing list for about three months with this
    > > email address now and I got my first spam on Friday. It was Nigerian 419
    > > scam of course. I had four or five back in January at my old email
    > > address where I lived then. I learned to use a trow away address on
    > > mailing lists because sooner or later the scum will find a way of
    > > harvesting them.
    >
    > On an ezmlm list manager, which SuSE is, I usually use a time dated email
    > address, because ezmlm goes by the envelope sender rather than the From:
    > address, when you sign up for the list. My system bounces about 20 a day
    > because the time dated From: has expired by the time the address has been
    > harvested.
    >
    > --
    > Gary

    Could you please explain how this works and this can be setup for existuing
    users?

    LW999 

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