Date:         Tue, 10 Nov 2009 16:17:34 -0500
Reply-To:     Andrew.Clapson@STATCAN.GC.CA
Sender:       "SAS(r) Discussion" <SAS-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
From:         Andrew Clapson <Andrew.Clapson@STATCAN.GC.CA>
Subject:      Re: Spam from list (well, not from the list per se)
Comments: To: jeremy.miles@gmail.com
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Sounds like a fair solution.  We have a decent spam filtering service
here at my work, but obviously it would be better (read: simpler) if
this problem were handled at the 'source', so to speak.

I'm just curious if there isn't some way to avoid posting our readily
'scoopable' email addresses on the web, without some alteration in order
to render them anonymous.  (For instance how some email address are
written ___at__dotcom.)

Not sure what the feasibility of this is, but it might be worth looking
into, I mean, who wants spam along with all this valuable SAS knowledge,
right?.


-----Original Message-----
From: SAS(r) Discussion [mailto:SAS-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU] On Behalf Of
Jeremy Miles
Sent: November 10, 2009 3:00 PM
To: SAS-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
Subject: Re: Spam from list (well, not from the list per se)


Like Arthur, I use an account separate from my work account for email
lists (and for personal stuff too).  It's a gmail account, and while I
get a lot of spam, thanks to the filtering, I see almost none of it. (I
just checked my spam folder - it's filtered about 30 emails today. None
have got through, there were no false positives. [I don't usually check
for false positives - there is no need].

I have no idea how good the other free email providers' spam filtering
is - it might be as good, or better.

Jeremy





2009/11/10 Arthur Tabachneck <art297@netscape.net>:
> Andy,
>
> Yes, there definitely appears to be some out there who feel that the
> addresses on sas-l posts are worthy or needful of their spam/fishing
> expeditions.
>
> Other than the usual spam filters, remaining totally anonymous or
> learning how to hack and destroy the abusers' computers, I'm not aware

> of any guaranteed solutions.
>
> I, personally, have always used an email account that I maintain
> solely for sas-l posts, so that I could simply get rid of it if the
> spam ever really got out of hand.  Fortunately, the spam volume has
> always remained sufficiently low that I've never felt the need to kill

> the account.
>
> Art
> ---------
> On Tue, 10 Nov 2009 11:46:48 -0500, Andrew Clapson
> <Andrew.Clapson@STATCAN.GC.CA> wrote:
>
>>Maybe I am missing something obvious - some preference setting or
>>something like that, but I've noticed a HUGE increase in spam to my
>>email address here at work after I'd joined the SAS list.
>>
>>Does everyone else have the same issue?
>>Is there any way to anonymize email addresses on the online list, or
>>are things always done this way? Feel free to roundly abuse this post
>>if there's some obvious thing I have missed in signing up for the
>>mailing list.
>>
>>
>>Thanks,
>>
>>Andy Clapson
>



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