godix wrote:How much of a problem is spam harvesters really? AFAIK the threat of email harvesting is greatly overexagerated on specialized forums like the org. I have a hotmail address listed so I'm getting loads of spam regardless of if it's public or not but can someone who has a non-free email service address verify if they've ever gotten spammed because their address was avalable on the org?
My
trythil@crescentisland.com address gets a whole heck of a lot of spam; it never really got spammed before I used it here.
I don't really care, though. Every piece of spam that flows in is more training data for bogofilter, which in turn helps my spam filtering on other accounts. I say bring it on: there's no real way for spammers to win against modern spam-filtering software.
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