Re: spammers on this list
"John G. Heim" <[email protected]> Sat, 15 Apr 2017 18:23:20 -0500
| Newsgroups | gmane.linux.redhat.blinux.general |
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| Organization | University of Wisconsin-Madison |
| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
But this particular spammer isn't harvesting email addresses from the archive. On 04/14/2017 10:31 PM, Jeffery Mewtamer wrote: > Considering that the list archives can be viewed by anyone at > https://www.redhat.com/archives/blinux-list/ > and be downloaded as gzipped plain text files that include the e-mail > address from which each message was sent, I think it's fair to say > there's next to nothing any list moderators could do to address spam, > and unless an alternative list either lacks public archives or has > archives that strip e-mail addresses from the from fields, it will be > just as vulnerable to spambots. >