Re: Spam and this list
| From: | Richard Davey | Date: | Tue, 01 Mar 2005 16:22:08 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Spam and this list | ||
| References: | 1 | Groups: | php.general |
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Hello bob,
Tuesday, March 1, 2005, 4:11:47 PM, you wrote:
b> I am most surprised that a list like this would be so open to
b> Spiders and other creepie crawlies. Other PHP mailing lists are
b> fine, why can't the original and best one be one of them ?
I can't see how any list at all that displays the authors email
address as the From: address could ever protect you from spam of any
kind. Sure you can munge the email addresses on the archives, but you
can't stop a bot from subscribing or monitoring the usenet gateway.
Best regards,
Richard Davey
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