Mailing list address harvested for spamming

[Noel Butler]

On 02/12/2018 05:31, M. Balridge wrote:

> Quoting dovecot-e51 at deemzed.uk:
> 
>> Not to stir the pot, but I notice my email address has recently been
>> harvested from this list for spamming purposes. This email address is
>> unique and not used for anything else.
>> 
>> I'd distinguish this from spam sent to the mailing list itself, which is
>> obviously different.
>> 
>> Is there anything further that could be done to prevent this?
> 
> It's practically impossible to "police" all of those who sign up for a mailing
> list that they do so for honest or constructive intentions. In addition,
> copies of this mailing list are archived by various online search engines and
> indexors, from content maintained or published by the list operators.
> 
> You're already using unique mail addresses, which is a sensible strategy, and
> one I use myself. In fact, I use a scheme whereby I don't need to change or
> update any back-end settings to deal with a multitude of unique and ad-hoc
> specified addresses for every vendor/supplier and interaction point I deal with.
> 
> In short, if you use a public mailing list, expect that the address you use
> for it will be discovered and abused by the nefarious marketeers of the High
> Bit Seas.
> 
> Cordially,
> =Malcky=

Since he uses a unique address, it is trivial to write a rule to ensure
msgs come from dovecot.org and discard everything else, I do that on
LKML, works a treat. This address alone is a mailing list only address,
direct messages go to junk folder, which I visually scan occasionally,
and if I dont within 7 days, tuff, they're deleted automatically. 

Which is why it annoys me that some people on mailing lists feel the
need to reply directly, rather than through mailing list. 

(Yeah I know its also shortcomings of certain mailers and mailing
services (has gmail even fixed that yet) where hitting reply or reply
all should go to list.  Its also dumb when list admins dont set reply-to
list, the entire point of relying to a list, is, well, to the list) 

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