I get next to zero spam, use AVG and Zonealarm free's from anywhere 
including PICLIST, Just have a ZOOM ADSL wireless (almost never use, 
it's typically disabled) modem router. Guess I should be :)

Olin Lathrop wrote:
> Sorry this is in TECH, but it's definitely not PIC or EE and it doesn't seem
> right that you have to open the flood gates of OT to talk about legitimate
> list logistic issues.  Personally I think there should be a LIST tag, but
> since there isn't, we're left with TECH.  Or is that what ADMIN is for?
> It's never been clear to me whether ADMIN is only for messages generated by
> admins, or whether it is for anyone discussing list administration issue.
> In case the former, I'll stick to TECH for now.
>
> Anyway, I've been getting increasing amounts of spam to my PIClist email
> account.  I use a different address for the PIClist partly to avoid such
> problems, but since the PIClist has been logged at various sites everyone's
> PIClist email address is out there for spammers to harvest.  So the question
> is, can the server be set up to remove the FROM: address from messages and
> possibly substitute the list address?  Replies to PIClist messages should go
> to the list anyway.  If your mail address never appears in a message
> distributed by the server, then it won't matter how widely it gets
> distributed.  Does the server have this capability?  If so, is there a
> reason not to use it?  I expect this isn't the first time this issue has
> come up on a mailing list.
>
> Maybe I'll try a experiment.  I'll make up a totally new email address, use
> it exclusively for sending to the PIClist, and never otherwise give it out.
> I will be interesting to see how long it takes to get the first spam and how
> quickly it ramps up.  I'll log the number of spam messages a day and show
> the results once a reasonable amount of data has been collected.  It may
> take a day or two before I do it because I've got stuff to get done right
> now, and I have to go digging in some very old dusty control files to change
> everything.
>
>
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