On May 19, 2003 12:47 pm, Dan Kegel wrote:
Since you're advocating the idea, could you try it out and post the results? Just use wine-dpaun@rogers.com or something like that every time you post to a wine list for the next few months, and let's see whether you get any spams at that address.
Well, I don't know if you've noticed, but I've been posting on wine-devel from two addresses: dimi@intelliware..., and dpaun@rogers... since Jan of this year. It's been more than 4 month, and as a matter of fact I've also posted on the binutils list as well from my dimi@intelliware.ca, so I don't know where the address got harvested, but it does give an upper bound. Here is the situation:
-- I read my mail from work and from home. At work I read my mail from 9:30 to 18:00, and there I delete all spam, so I can't account for it. But I can tell you I don't get much. If spam would be evenly distributed, I should get roughly 1/3 during business hours, but it's far less than that. But since we're looking for an upper bound, we can work with 1/3. -- At home all mail I delete go to the trash folder in kmail, so here I can count.
This being the case, in the last month (which should be the worse, because it takes time to harvest the address, etc.) I could count about 20 spams on that address (dimi@intelliware...). If we assume I've deleted 1/3, this gives at most 30 spam mail per month, or an average of 1 per day. And for what it's worth, all _very_ simple to filter out: Viagra, "Copy Any DVD - With a CD Burner", $10000, etc.