Re: SPAM!!
Scott Mitchell <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.os.freebsd.devel.mobile |
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| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
On Sun, Nov 23, 2003 at 10:35:42AM -0800, Lars Eggert wrote: > 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]. > > These schemes don't help. Nothing prevents an address-gathering bot to > harvest addresses from the mailing list directly. Or more likely, from the various newsgroups that these lists are copied to. The fact is, if you're going to post to any kind of public list, either use an address you don't care about or accept that it's going to attract spam and take steps to deal with that. It sucks, but what else can you do? Scott -- =========================================================================== Scott Mitchell | PGP Key ID | "Eagles may soar, but weasels Cambridge, England | 0x54B171B9 | don't get sucked into jet engines" scott at fishballoon.org | 0xAA775B8B | -- Anon _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-mobile To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"