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Re: Spammers watching this user forum
Todd Bowden wrote:
>
> Just received an email from an email address that only could of received
> my address from this user list.
>
> My address was only created a couple weeks ago for the sole purpose of
> emailing this user-list. Might there be a way to
> hide peoples email addresses and just use their alias names instead of
> publishing them on the user list thread?
Uh, it's called a public mailing list. You should never be surprised to
receive spam on an email address you use to post to a ML, that's just
how the world works. Use a throwaway account if it bothers you. I also
suggest SpamAssassin.
Brian
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