Preventing spammers from infiltrating the Red Hat mailing lists

[William M. Quarles]

Jamie Zawinski wrote:

> I've had the same extremely public email address for ten years,
> and spam is a total non-problem for me.
> 
> Learn to use filters, and get an ISP that subscribes to MAPS UBL
> and quit your whining.
> 
> Or, don't use email.
> 
> Intentionally obfuscating or hiding email addresses destroys the
> utility of mail as a communications medium.  This cure is worse
> than the disease.

Why, changing my e-mail address to read walrus bellsouth.net on the Red 
Hat site is too challenging for you?  At least it fools a stupid 
computer looking for it.  Although I agree that when the archives 
completely delete e-mail addresses than it is useless, but the archives 
that I have contacted about that say that they have to because they get 
daily requests from people to completely remove even obfuscated e-mail 
addresses.

Look into the Gmane encryption, it is a worthwhile solution to the news 
spider problem.  And it doesn't inhibit the functioning of the mailing 
list whatsoever.  If you don't use Gmane the only reason why you would 
care is because it keeps the spam spiders away, and that's a good thing 
to care about.

<http://gmane.org/tmda.php>

William