Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2014 14:49:33 -0500 From: Mike Sanders <tmp1@freebsd.hypermart.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Spam to list participants (from openhosting.com & softcom.com) Message-ID: <20140430194933.GA975@taco-shack.cow> In-Reply-To: <20140430101545.GA931@taco-shack.cow> References: <73354.1398734218@server1.tristatelogic.com> <535F1667.1050406@soliddataservices.com> <20140429114019.0eb3ce48@X220.alogt.com> <20140429124618.06d708ba@gumby.homeunix.com> <20140429204204.2e561935@X220.alogt.com> <20140429140123.GA910@taco-shack.cow> <20140429162810.76013a19@gumby.homeunix.com> <20140430101545.GA931@taco-shack.cow>
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Mike Sanders wrote: > Which implies all list members email addresses are exposed > to the world at large? How else would an email address be > gained by spammers... If that's the case it needs to be changed. All right, after reading the manual for GNU Mailman (the software this list uses) you CAN toggle off senders email addresses: <http://staff.imsa.edu/~ckolar/mailman/mailman-administration-v2.html>; Under section 'Membership exposure': Description: Show member addrs so they're not directly recognizable as email addrs? Value: This is a nice feature that discourages theft of lists: the membership list does not show actually addresses but instead shows participants as "username at foo.com". This should block most harvesters if they manage to get through to the listing. -- Mike Sanders www: http://freebsd.hypermart.net gpg: 0xD94D4C13
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