Re: ADMIN list config change

 > From: Walter Vermeir <[email protected]>

> Anthere wrote:
> 
> > I am interested by the idea of an automatic
> message.
> > Just a question though. The message will
> automatically
> > be spent to non-wikipedians spammers as well (the
> rich
> > but desperate african, the enlarged sex, and the
> > luscious lips).
> > I was told it was best to never answer back to a
> > spammer, as it could then gain certainty the
> adress
> > was valid, and send even more spam. Do you not
> fear an
> > increase of spam then ?
> > 
> > Ant
> 
> Yes and no. I do not think that in the Spam-world of
> today there are 
> still many spammers who use there real working
> sender adress.
> 
> The auto-reply will go to a non-vallid adress or to
> the emailadress of 
> third party. I can send spam whit your emailadres
> Anthere.
> 
> But whit the configuration to hold the postings for
> moderation the 
> sender also recieved a email. The "your email is
> hold for moderation". 
> So there is not difference about that.

Ah, true.
 
> The only thing i do not like is the plain owner
> emailadress in the 
> auto-reply.
> 
> Sending sending the emailadress in the
> mailto:[email protected] from. That 
> is asking for spam.

Might it be a sort of a viral disease then ?
The more spam we receive, the more auto-reply there
is, and the more spam you receive again ?
I still can not understand why some of the wikipedia
mailing list receive so much more spam than others.
 
> I would like that it would be email AT dress DOT com
> .
> 
> The same whit the list info pages. The contain the
> list posting 
> emailadress and the owner
> [email protected] plain whit any 
> anti-spam protection. That is asking for spam.
> 
> There is no way to stop the emails to the
> [email protected] 
> adress.
> 
> ....... or maybe ...
> 
> If i use a encypted gmane version of my emailadress
> for ...

If you can work out a solution Walter, it will be very
much appreciated; that much, I can say :-)

Keep us informed of your ideas :-)

thanks

ant



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