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Subject: Re: [Wikipedia-l] The "wikidown" address
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(Erik Moeller <erik_moeller(a)gmx.de>)e>):
The "wikidown" address just got
spammed. Since there's no way
to get off of spammers' lists once on, that pretty much demands
that we change it. Further, whatever means we are using to
announce that address to human beings should probably be fixed
to make it less friendly to address-sucking bots.
What about spamassassin? It's a pretty decent filter that should catch
most of the spam. Getting and staying off spammers' lists seems like a
futile exercise, and many people have now memorized the wikidown address.
I run SpamAssassin at Piclab; it's great--it reduces my mail from
about 200-300 a day down to 20-30. But the "wikidown" address is
attached to my pager, so even one a day is a nuisance.
--
Lee Daniel Crocker <lee(a)piclab.com> <http://www.piclab.com/lee/>
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