Andreas Huber wrote:
1. How do other contributors deal with spam/viruses clogging up their in-boxes? Am I worrying about something that will never be a big deal?
I am not a contributor; yet I am sure my email address appears many places from which it would be harvested, such as ChangeLogs in other projects. I have found the ability to use separate different address (as you seem to do) for different purposes limits the potiential for spam to ever be a serious problem for me. The particular fashion in which I have mail filters set up (nothing unique I'm sure) means that the vast majority of spam is immediately recognizable such that I can skip it very quickly. A good threaded mail reader helps in this respect. I would be extremely suprised if the time I spend processing spam would ever come near the amount of time it takes me to sort through the mailing lists I read, and actually reading email that I am genuinely interested in. Therefore, I am vaguely opposed to this sort of thing. Often overzealous spam measures make it difficult to get at someone's address when I would really like to; other measures such as subscribe-only lists etc threaten to take more time for me to work with than spam ever will. Hoping these comments will be useful, Aaron W. LaFramboise