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

[Simon L. Nielsen]

On 2006.05.27 13:12:37 +0400, Dmitry Morozovsky wrote:
> 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 ;-)

Yes.

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

Could be, but that doesn't really matter.  Computer resources (for
receiving the spam mails) is not a problem in this case, admin
resources is :-).

-- 
Simon L. Nielsen
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