[mythtv-users] in-the-clear email addresses on web archives?

[Jarod C. Wilson]

On Friday, Oct 10, 2003, at 00:42 US/Pacific, Chris Petersen wrote:

>> No SpamAssassin?!?
>
> of course I have SA.

I figured you would. That's why I was surprised by your mention of spam 
problems. :)

> However, that still means that my bandwidth is
> eaten up by incoming spam

Ah, but that's one of the beauties of blacklists and sender 
verification. Crap that's either blacklisted or coming from a fake 
account doesn't waste bandwidth beyond the initial connect and a reply 
from my relay, saying 'kindly piss off'. (Okay, sender verification 
takes a bit of bandwidth too, but not much).

> and I still have to check my "possible spam"
> box and read the messages that end up there, in case SA flagged
> something it shouldn't have.

I did that for a little while, until I was convinced I had everything 
nicely tweaked. I just auto-delete now... Perhaps a bit reckless, but 
hey...

> I, too, have complete control over my mail server (and web, and dns)

(likewise)

> and do a *lot* of blocking at the mail server level (cut my spam down 
> by
> about 80% to use some of courier's more strict checks, etc.).

Ah, okay. So it's not as bad as it sounded from your initial mail. :)

I use exim myself. Blacklists, sender verification, call-outs, 
anti-RCPT hack protection, attachment-based scanning and lax spam 
filtering at the border, another layer of more stringent spam filtering 
on the actual mail server.

> But like
> I said, that doesn't mean I don't still have to check every message 
> that
> does make it through, in case something like a job offer or legit
> mailing list question got flagged improperly.

Heh. I suppose I might have lost some valid mail along the way... But I 
save tons of time never looking at any spam, so I figure the trade-off 
is worth it. ;p

> Anyway, just a polite request to whoever is in charge of dealing with
> the web archives...


Copy that.

--Jarod

-- 
Jarod C. Wilson, RHCE

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