Paul Tansom paul@whaletales.co.uk skribis:
[...] apart for being a bit verbose [...]
That was it ;-)
the SmoothWall list was made available as a web archive (now closed again), my spam quota has rocketed, and become more unpleasant. [...]
Well, basically, ALUG archives include email addresses both as a form of attribution and as a way for people to contact you about your message. Sadly, some unscrupulous individuals will take email addresses from whereever they can get them, including such list archives but also newsgroups, other web pages, any email records or subscriber lists, nameserver lookups of certain ISPs, domain registrations, etc. About the only way to avoid spam completely is to avoid the Internet completely.
For the rest of us, spam filters are the order of the day. Some people will prefer regular expressions, some spamassassin, some a Bayesian filter, some the DCC project, some DNS blacklists, and some a combination. I hope you find whatever works for you.