I've been meaning to bring up this issue to the list, but hadn't quite gotten
around to it. Now seems like a good time!
I changed email addresses recently
and am using a new service call Mailblocks, which provides "disposable" email
addresses. ( For more on Mailblocks see: http://www.lawlibtech.com/archives/000064.html
) I assigned one specifically for my listserv emails and started receiving
spam shortly after posting to law-lib using that address. This confirmed my
suspicion that a significant portion of my spam is a result of listserv participation.
If you Google my mailblocks email address - NOSPAMcchick-lists7791@mailblocks.com
(remove the NOSPAM) - you'll see that I did NOT include it in my signature,
but the postings come up anyway. So I will be cancelling that email address
in the near future.
In the meantime, I'm now getting my lawlib messages
via Bloglines. ( http://www.lawlibtech.com/archives/000129.html )and suspect
I will need to cancel THIS address now that I've posted, and re-subscribe
under a different one. Luckily that's fairly easy to do with Bloglines.
I would really advise against using a work email address for any listserv
subscriptions. It's easy to cancel a web mail account, but not so easy to
change your work email address.
Unfortunately this situation with the
archives discourages the kind of communication that most subscribers want
to participate in. I like having the archives available for searching, so
I'm not suggesting they be discontinued, but considering the spam issues a
change in how the archives handle email addresses would certainly be welcome.
For more information on spam, see my Searcher magazine article "Weapon
of Mass Disruption" at http://www.infotoday.com/searcher/nov03/chick.shtml
and my subsequent spam-related blogs at http://www.lawlibtech.com/archives/cat_spam.html
Cindy L. Chick
http://www.lawlibtech.com
--- Anderson wrote:
Another
consequence of archiving law-lib postings is that your e-mail address is out
there for spammers to grab. I get about 80 to 100 spams each day, which is
more than almost anyone else in my firm receives. I believe this is because
I used to put my e-mail address in my signature when I posted to law-lib.
>
> Now I use this configuration instead: name at domain dot com. A human
can translate it, but a computer can't (yet, anyway). Or I leave it off, and
figure people can reply to me now, but they won't be able to find me through
the archives later.
>
> Karen Anderson
> Information Specialist
> Quarles
& Brady/Streich Lang
> Phoenix
> kanderso at quarles dot com
>
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