Avaaz in "grave danger" due to GMail spam filters
Moon Jones
mjones at pencil.allmail.net
Tue Aug 20 13:15:31 PDT 2013
On 20.08.2013 14:43, staticsafe wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 20, 2013 at 02:15:31PM +0200, Moon Jones wrote:
>> On 19.08.2013 18:44, staticsafe wrote:
>>> The biggest problem being spam. We need to educate typical e-mail users
>>> about e-mail hygiene and spam fighting.
>>
>> What do you mean by «e-mail hygiene» and «spam fighting»?
>
> E-mail hygiene:
> - Using aliases for every company you deal with, or using recipient
> delimiters like "+" so it is easier to find out which company sold you
> out.
> - Exercise more caution when handing out your "primary" address
> - Avoid services that like to spam your addressbook (see: LinkedIn etc.)
>
> Spam fighting:
> - Using DNSBLs to cut down on the crap
> - Training spamassassin's DB with ham and spam.
> - Enact rate limiting policies so that a compromised account can only do
> limited amount of damage.
Oops. My bad.
Than what do you mean by «typical e-mail user»?
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