Date: Sat, 10 Aug 2002 08:40:27 -0600 (MDT) From: Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com> To: William Palfreman <william@palfreman.com> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Email address harvesting from the FreeBSD archive Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0208100837210.46032-100000@wonkity.com> In-Reply-To: <20020810103419.D8173-100000@bell.lan.palfreman.com>
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On Sat, 10 Aug 2002, William Palfreman wrote: > I've noticed since I started participating a bit on FreeBSD mailinglist > I seem to be getting a lot more spam. Looking though the archive I see > that no attempt is make to disguise participants email addresses. So > really, sending emails to this list is an guaranty of steadily > increasing amounts of spam, all the way up to hotmail and aol > proportions. And really, while email addresses are undisguised in the > archive, I'd have to be crazy to keep posting to the list, wouldn't I? Name one way to be on the internet and *not* be subject to increasing amounts of spam. I will filter and remove incoming spam, but I will not filter the stuff I write to avoid it. Many people use accounts at the free mail ISPs for this kind of purpose. -Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota USA To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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