Real mail addresses in list postings and resulting **SPAM**

[Karel Volný]

> > Fedora list archives are managed/displayed but rather one of
> > preparing incoming messages before postingthem to the list
> > subscribers. Any subscriber could help of course by
> > removing/obfuscating real mail addresses in the message body
> > before posting it to the list.
> 
> Except a lot of us believe that this is pointless  ...

I wonder what would happen if all this energy spent on 
obfuscating and setting up spamassassin etc. would be spent on 
tracking down the spammers and punishing them

for example, in Czech Republic, there were just 1458 reports 
resulting in 81 penalty fees for breaking the "antispam" law 
during 2008, which is a sad number considering the number of 
Internet users here - if everyone would bother to report, I bet 
there would be no Czech spam now

... also, as many countries do not have the appropriate laws, 
things like fierce disconnecting ill Windows machines 
participating in botnets would help a lot

K.

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Karel Volný
QE BaseOs/Daemons Team
Red Hat Czech, Brno
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