> In article <Marcel-1.53-0617095712-0b0+gH=@wymondham.demon.co.uk> you write:
> >On Sat 16 Jun, John Fremlin wrote:
> >> Chris Walker <bsduser@wymondham.demon.co.uk> writes:
> >> 
> >> > I have only recently subscribed to this list and yet I have started
> >> > to receive spam mail directed to this user. 
> >> 
> >> You didn't just subscribe but you posted some messages, which are
> >> archived on the web at mail-index.netbsd.org without any address
> >> mangling. Therefore any spambot can grab the address.
> >
> >Hmm. I have the line in the header 'X-No-Archive:Yes' so shouldn't that stop
> >the mail being archived?
> 
> No.  X-No-Archive is a USENET convention, and not generally respected by
> mailing-list archivers.

Why not just set up your e-mail client such that the e-mail
address that gets inserted into your sent messages is of
the form chris@NOSPAM.cowdery.demon.co.uk. Users of
http://www.slashdot.org are very good at that.
 

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