RE: not on topic but relevant to list

DrOwl_at_23.me.uk
Date: 11/12/03 

Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2003 22:53:15 +0000
To: beginners@perl.org

At 22:12 12/11/2003, you wrote:

>> I recently changed the email address i use for this
>> list and posted a question,
>> i have never use this email address before and now i
>> receiving regular spam to this address
>> Is it Just me or has every one started to receive a lot
>> of spam on address used for this list?
>
>A little of both maybe,
>
>I gets lots of garbage at my address. The problem is the same with all the
>lists I subscribe to, they have web archives. Which means evil robots
>can go and harvest our email addresses. So it's not just this list it's
>Anytime you have an email address on a website. Even smart robots can
>figure out address that attempt to conceal them selves. Even lists that
>remove emial addresses ccompletely can still be spammed quite easily.
>
>HTH
>
>Dmuey

grrr as if i was not getting enoff already
if only work would let me become a spam cop then id get emm...

hum could we not get a nice topic prefix added to the list?
it would make it a lot easy to make mail filters that could kill all mail
going to this address, not from the list.?

humm guess i should just accept my fait at lest the spam im getting is just fraudulent
and not about pÖrn

Ritchie 

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>> 
>> 
>>       Sorry of the off topic question its just most annoying
>
>It is annoying - we hates spam!
>
>> 
>>       Ritchie
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