Re: Spam harvesters and this list (was Disaster Preperations)
On Tue, Mar 16, 1999 at 01:02:09PM -0800, Joey Hess wrote:
> Joseph Carter wrote:
> > * I would appreciate it if someone would
> > * mangle my email address for spam reasons and forward this to -user
> > * where it will do more good.
>
> What? It's not like this isn't a public list as well. If you're a debian
> developer, your address is out there, on innumerable web pages and
> newsgroups and mailing lists, just waiting to be harvested - nothing can
> prevent that.
>
No, but some sources are harvested more readily than others. I have gotten
more spam that I can trace back to -user than I can from any other posting.
(email addressed to some.message.id.gecko@benham.net, for example, and the
message id traces back to this or that post to -user)
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