cvs commit: www/en/internal new-account.sgml

[Dmitry Morozovsky]

On Sat, 27 May 2006, Simon L. Nielsen wrote:

SLN> > GS>   - Change admins@ to accounts@, since the former is closed due to
SLN> > GS>      a lot of spam.
SLN> > GS>   - Do not use full form of accounts@ email address, to avoid spam
SLN> > GS>     harvesting of this address.
SLN> > 
SLN> > What wonders me a bit is that I did not find any announcement for this even on 
SLN> > closed mailing list.
SLN> 
SLN> It changed half a year or so ago after admins started getting 1000+
SLN> bounces a day.  People writing admins will get a reply telling them
SLN> where to direct their email.

Ah, thanks for clarification. So, I suppose glebius@ apparently had to contact 
admins, got this reply and decided to document it somewhere ;-)

However, doesn't this auto-reply provoke spammers to think admins@ is still 
workable mail address? 

Sincerely,
D.Marck                                     [DM5020, MCK-RIPE, DM3-RIPN]
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