Re: SPAM!!

> On Sat, Nov 22, 2003 at 10:12:07PM +0100, Andreas Kohn wrote:
> > On Sat, 2003-11-22 at 21:30, Tommy Heaney wrote:
> > > I noticed that the day I joined this list that I began recieiving about 10
> > > virus spam messages, which I have never gotten before.   I am pretty sure it
> > > is as a result of joining the mailing list, so whatever people need to do to
> > > make sure they aren't being used to mass mail viruses or that the list isn't
> > > vulnerable to leaking email addresses, please do.
> > 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > the archives of this list are available through numerous websites. It
> > should not be surprising that some email address gathering bot found
> > your address via those pages. 
> > 

On Sun, 2003-11-23 at 00:56, Thomas Repantis wrote:
> Can't this archiving take place in a more intelligent manner?  For example 
> using "user host.org", instead of "user at host.org", "user[at]host.org" or 
> (Goddess forbid!) [email protected].

What would that change? It would just be another form of saying
"[email protected]" without saying "[email protected]". 

> 
> I think it's embarrassing the fact that in the official archives one can see 
> the last of the forementioned options!
> 
> If you think this is a reasonable idea, whom should we contact?  The mailman 
> authors, the freebsd.org webmaster, someone else?
> 
> Cheers, 
> Thomas
> 
> 
If this really is such a problem, I would suggest mailing the mailman
authors, and trying to get the FreeBSD.org's mailman updated afterwards.

But I don't think that this would help stopping spam. More than one
archive exists(which is good, because google finds answers better :) ).
Personally I think using some sort of spam filters should work quite
well. With only the filters of GMX FreeMail I am able to filter out most
spam, with more customized filters it should be possible to have a
largely spam-free mail experience.

Regards,
-- 
Andreas Kohn <[email protected]>

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