Re: [xmca] Spam and xmca mailing list

[Huw Lloyd <huw.softdesigns@gmail.com>]

On 28 October 2011 13:39, Andy Blunden <ablunden@mira.net> wrote:

> Huw, I have been on xmca with this email address since 1999, and I have
> never thought that xmca was a significant source of spam. The overwhelming
> majority of spam I get is from just one fellow who has phished my address
> and uses it to spam millions of others and I get all the bounce messages. :(
> But on marxists.org (where I have another email account) we have an alias
> system, and whenever spam gets too high, the volunteer changes alias. This,
> together with the server subscribing to various spam filters makes sure that
> spam remains at an absolutely trivial level. The only defence each
> individual volunteer uses is exactly the strategy that xmca uses, simple
> disguises of email addresses on the one and only one page where it is
> listed, which are sufficient to prevent automatic spam harvesters.
>
> Bruce, who looks after the technical side of xmca is cc-ed above (although
> Bruce also follows discussion on the list and would have read your initial
> message). If you have a concrete suggestion, I am sur Bruce would listen.
>

Website pages can be marked as _not_ for 'spider bots' that accumulate pages
for google and the like, I believe.  So checking the relevant lchc pages
would be a start.

Again, this is anecdotal, but pretty easy to check.

Huw


>
> Andy
>
>
> Huw Lloyd wrote:
>
>> On 28 October 2011 13:11, Carol Macdonald <carolmacdon@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>
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>>> Consider changing to gmail for your xmca messages.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>> I use gmail, i'd rather not have it in the spam at all.   I guess those
>> people who use an email account solely for xmca will be better able to
>> gauge
>> the level of associated spam -- pretty easy to test, if there was
>> willingness to do anything about it on confirmation.
>>
>> Huw
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>>> On 28 October 2011 13:29, Huw Lloyd <huw.softdesigns@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>> I'd estimate that 80% of the spam I get is from spammers using the xmca
>>>> mailing list (either the mail itself or the members list on html page).
>>>> Has anyone put some thought into making this less easy for spammers?
>>>>
>>>> Thanks,
>>>> Huw
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