On Wed, 2002-11-27 at 22:02, debian@computerdatasafe.com.au wrote: > A word of warning to all the gentle folk here. The archives to this > (and, I guess, other Debbian lists) are published at > http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2002/ > > This list is a wonderful source of email addresses for spammers. I have > posted just two letters before this to the list, and already I'm getting > spammed. > > Fortunately, in my case I have an email address just for Debian lists, > and so if email isn't from Debian it isn't welcome. > > If you are unhappy at the idea of your email address being published in > plan view for every spammer to take and use, then I uege you to complain > to the person who runs this list, or failing that, to the postmaster at > the hosting site. > > If you yourself host lists or archives of lists, take care to respect > people's privacy. > > If you find another archive that also publishes email addresses, > complain there too. When enough people complain - and hopefully in this > matter one is enough - then people will take action to rectify the > problem. > > Thanks folks for your time, and I'll get out of your way now. > > -- > > Cheers > John Summerfield > > Please, no off-list mail at all at all. This address accepts mail only from Debian lists. That is interesting, as I only have one particular type of additional email since partaking in this list: Nigerian 419 fraud email. That said, blocking the viewing of this list from lists.debian.org would be essentially irrelevant, as the group is also echoed in two Usenet newsgroups: linux.debian.users and somewhere in the muc tree (I went to type it and realised I didn't have the name all that handy, so I won't wing it.) Usenet groups have long been grepped for spam addresses in the message headers - that was a practice that came about over a decade ago even in the FidoNet days, although then it cost the senders for direct email. -- Mark L. Kahnt, FLMI/M, ALHC, HIA, AIAA, ACS, MHP ML Kahnt New Markets Consulting Tel: (613) 531-8684 / (613) 539-0935 Email: kahnt@hosehead.dyndns.org
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