think of how many thousands of times our email addresses have been
posted on Jim Lill's peugeot-L list archives on the web (and we all
know how well crawled those things are!). I think that's a huge
contributor of spam.
if you ask me, its 2006, and spam is just part of the internet
experience. we can all bitch and moan, but at the end of the day, your
never going to escape it fully. it really comes down to how little you
can get. I use gmail for peugeot-l (as you can see), and i never get
any spam in my inbox with all the posts, it does an excellent job of
filtering it into my 'spam' folder automatically. I think all serious
mail providers out there today offer some level of spam filtering eh?
(gmail, yahoo, hotmail, earthlink, aol, etc. etc).
i'd be totally happy with switching to a real list manager, but what i
wouldn't be happy with is splitting the group up. i think i mentioned
this before, but it seems like we have a lot of 'old school' users who
have a hard time hitting 'reply to all' as it is. seems like for some,
it'd be more hassle then its worth to split to another list
(especially if they don't have a problem with spam).
On 2/16/06, (-Phil-) <listacct@mindfart.com> wrote:
> This is precisely why I am annoyed. I know this for a fact.
>
> Yahoo is also selling the content for targeted spam.
>
> They will continue to get more aggressive with their "incursions" as time
> goes on I suspect. (The market is getting competitive so they will leverage
> their assets, being US!)
>
> If we put the email list on Mailman we will have better control and can take
> steps like you suggest to prevent spammers from joining and harvesting.
>
> -Phil
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Pug NZ" <pug-yahoo2@azorah.co.nz>
> To: <larryvan@pclink.com>
> Cc: "peugeot list" <peugeot-l@yahoogroups.com>
> Sent: Thursday, February 16, 2006 1:53 PM
> Subject: Re: [Peugeot-L] VOTING YES FOR YAHOO
>
>
> > Very little spam comes via the list, however the email addresses on the
> > list are harvested by spammers.
> > How do I know this?
> >
> > I have one email address for posting to the list, and another for
> > receiving emial from the list.
> > A quick check of the junk folder shows around 150 spam messages in the
> > last couple of days to the email address I use for posting.
> > That email address is only used for posting to yahoo, nothing else.
> >
> > The problem with using yahoo or any other well known groups website, is
> > that it is not much work for a spammer to sign up for a whole stack of
> > different groups, and then harvest the email address from each message
> > sent to them.
> >
> > If we swapped to someones personal group server, it will take more
> > effort for the spammer to find and sign up.
> > Of course, you could be paranoid and not send the email addresses to new
> > subscribers until they had posted half a dozen on topic messages, and
> > censor messages from newbies prior to posting etc to make it harder for
> > spammers to lurk on the list (who wants some work? ).
> >
> > I get a bit annoyed that Yahoo keep on dropping the ball. One returned
> > message and the list stops until you realise it has been too quiet for a
> > day or so, then you can't get the missed messages resent.
> >
> > Kevin
> >
> >
> > Vanden Berg wrote:
> >
> >>I have no problems with the current Yahoo Peugeot list. None. A
> >>couple of spam messages that slip through on occasion are handled in 3
> >>seconds with the delete key. Meanwhile I get 1400 spam messages a week
> >>to my e-mail address 99.95% of which are removed by a spam filter at my
> >>ISP.
> >>
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