Re: SPAM!!
Bernd Walter <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.os.freebsd.devel.mobile |
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| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
On Sun, Nov 23, 2003 at 09:38:16PM +0000, Scott Mitchell wrote: > 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? Thinking about this is woth nothing anyway. I know for shure that spammers are already sniffing SMTP transfers to gather addresses. -- B.Walter BWCT http://www.bwct.de [email protected] [email protected] _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-mobile To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"