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Re: spam (was Re: email addresses leak out)

From: Joerg Mueller-Tolk <curl_at_mueller-tolk.de>
Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2003 10:02:52 +0200

Hello Daniel

>Before we started to "spammify" addresses on the curl site, tests showed that
>you would get spam VERY soon after your first post on a curl mailing list.
>This proved our efforts at least saved some of us from some spam.
>
That's true. Your efforts to reduce spam are really effective.

>If you use a special email address for the curl mailing lists, perhaps you
>could even take a step further and simply throw away all mails sent to your
>address that don't come from a curl mailing list.
>
Right! That's exactly what I thought tonight :-)

best regards
Joerg

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Received on 2003-10-14