I recently (within the last few days) increase in the volume of emails
ending up in my spam folder. On investigation, I discovered that over 90% of
my spam was sent to the "owner" of a RubyForge project mailing list (for
example, freeride-cvsevents-owner and rubyinstaller-announce-owner).
I'm assuming that all other RubyForge ML owners are experienc ing the same
thing. Since I *never* get legitimate email to these addresses, I'm going to
change the "owner" of each of my MLs to a bogus email address.
Tom, will this had an adverse impact on RubyForge and, if so, is there an
alternative?
It hacks up the email link so that bots see hard-to-parse javascript
but humans see a normal-looking link. It uses javascript to compute
the email-link dynamically.
Hm... I'm not sure. Let me poke around the Mailman configuration for a
bit and see if there's another way... but I think what you're suggesting
should work fine...
Yours,
Tom
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On Wed, 2005-10-26 at 22:20 +0900, Curt Hibbs wrote:
I recently (within the last few days) increase in the volume of emails
ending up in my spam folder. On investigation, I discovered that over 90% of
my spam was sent to the "owner" of a RubyForge project mailing list (for
example, freeride-cvsevents-owner and rubyinstaller-announce-owner).
I'm assuming that all other RubyForge ML owners are experienc ing the same
thing. Since I *never* get legitimate email to these addresses, I'm going to
change the "owner" of each of my MLs to a bogus email address.
Tom, will this had an adverse impact on RubyForge and, if so, is there an
alternative?
There are no links. I think someone just figured out that they can harverst
a list MLs off of RubyForge and just append "-owner" to the end to get a
valid email address.
It hacks up the email link so that bots see hard-to-parse javascript
but humans see a normal-looking link. It uses javascript to compute
the email-link dynamically.