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Re: [faq-maintainers] Spam sent to FAQ address

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From: John Relph (relph@mando.engr.sgi.com)
Date: Mon Oct 09 2000 - 13:35:16 CDT


Mostly what I've found is that it's the act of sending the FAQ to the
newsgroup that causes the most spam. If I do not post FAQs to Usenet
then I receive less spam. The website doesn't create very much as far
as I can tell.

        -- John

On Oct 8, 20:02, Baglady Lani wrote:
>On Sun, 8 Oct 2000, Mike Holloway wrote:
>>Speaking of idiot's crap, does anyone have methods to share for avoiding
>>the harvesting of your address off your FAQ?
>
> 1. Procmail, Procmail, Procmail.
> 2. No email address at my Web site. You wanna send me feedback? You
>fill out an online form.
>
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