Re: Email Harvesting by First Albany Capital
Barry Brimer <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.linux.redhat.release.taroon.general |
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| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
On Wed, 1 Nov 2006, [ISO-8859-1] Máirín Duffy wrote: > Hi Barry, > > Barry Brimer wrote: >>> What makes me wonder is where they've collected the addresses? It must >>> have been a different list, since the subscriber list of taroon-list is >>> private, and I haven't posted to this list for a long time. >> >> I am on several Red Hat lists, all with the same email address which I use >> only for mailing lists, and specifially Linux-related mailing lists. The >> only place that this person could have harvested email addresses is from >> Red Hat themselves, unless they were harvested from mailing lists or their >> mailing list archives, if that is even possible. > > Red Hat doesn't engage in that sort of business so you can count that > possibility out. See our privacy policy at: > http://www.redhat.com/legal/privacy_statement.html Clarification: I am not accusing Red Hat of violating their privacy policy. I was simply stating that I happen to have received the email in question to an email address which is used explicity for Linux related mailing lists, therefore suggesting that the source of the email addresses were most likely related to Red Hat mailing lists. I did *not* receive the email in question at the email addresses that I have as part of my Red Hat customer record, or my Red Hat certification record. After I posted my message, another list participant confirmed that (at least) one of the Red Hat mailing lists that I am on has public archives available, which presumably does not have obfuscated or filtered email addresses. -- Taroon-list mailing list [email protected] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/taroon-list