This is a public service announcement from the
maintainer of the server that misc.taxes.moderated
relies upon to function.
If you use a fake return address in your postings
because you don't want to post your real address and
have it harvested by spammers, then it is incumbent
upon you to to make sure that it really IS a
non-working email address, rather than the address of a
spam-trap honeypot set up by anti-spammers.
Because if it's a honeypot, and the MTM moderation
server tries to send an acknowledgment to you in
response to your submission, then that's going to
cause the server to be added to anti-spam blacklists,
impeding its email delivery.
Specifically (though not exclusively), using
"@NOSPAMgmail.com" as your return address domain isn't
as harmless as you think it is:
$ host NOSPAMgmail.com
NOSPAMgmail.com has address 65.60.35.76
NOSPAMgmail.com mail is handled by 10 getblacklisted.NOSPAMgmail.com.
I hope you see the problem there.
My server got blacklisted last night because someone in
this group is using that domain in their return
address. I can't email them directly about it because,
obviously, I don't have their real address.
The server that runs MTM is also my family email
server. When MTM causes my server to be put onto
blocklists, it prevents my family's email from being
delivered. This is not OK.
To be honest, it's highly unlikely nowadays that using
a fake domain in your return address is going to
measurably reduce the amount of spam you receive. First
of all, most email service providers have good spam
filters nowadays. Second, believe me, the spammers
already have your email address. And it's unlikely that
most of them are wasting time scraping addresses from
Usenet; it's not a particularly target-rich environment.
But if you insist on doing this, then you need to make
sure the domain you're using is actually fake. Go to
https://mxtoolbox.com/SuperTool.aspx to look it up
before putting it in your address.
Moving forward, any submissions to this group from
NOSPAMgmail.com will be silently dropped. I do not
have the time or energy to deal with getting my server
taken off of blacklists because of this.
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