"jrhw": A New Backscatter Subscription Problem

[Tim]

On Mon, 2006-01-16 at 12:06 -0500, David Cary Hart wrote:
> sorry to inform you that ....

An effective way to avoid spam, nasty-grams, and stupid bounces from
participating in mailing lists, subscribe twice over:

Once with an address that you're going to post from, but never read its
inbox (e.g. some disposable freebie address).  This lets you write to
the list using an ordinary mail program, and any spam sent your way
never actually gets to *YOU*.  Set your subscription for this address to
not receive any messages (pick a read on the website option).

And once more with an address that you're going to receive mail from the
list, but *NEVER* post from.  Only the list software will know this
address, nobody else, so they can't directly spam you.  Set this
subscription to receive mail how you want to.

It means people can't privately e-mail you, but in seveal years I've
never found that to be much of an advantage.  Most of the few that do
that only want to be abusive, the genuine ones can ask you to mail them,
or you can give instructions for a human, but not a spam address
harvester, to work out how to contact you.

-- 
Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored.
I read messages from the public lists.

Slowly and surely the unix crept up on the Nintendo user ...