From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Apr 27 20:32:14 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C44A6106564A for ; Tue, 27 Apr 2010 20:32:14 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) Received: from asmtpout027.mac.com (asmtpout027.mac.com [17.148.16.102]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AFC1D8FC19 for ; Tue, 27 Apr 2010 20:32:14 +0000 (UTC) MIME-version: 1.0 Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Received: from cswiger1.apple.com ([17.209.4.71]) by asmtp027.mac.com (Sun Java(tm) System Messaging Server 6.3-8.01 (built Dec 16 2008; 32bit)) with ESMTPSA id <0L1J004OQYDJZD60@asmtp027.mac.com> for freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org; Tue, 27 Apr 2010 13:32:14 -0700 (PDT) X-Proofpoint-Spam-Details: rule=notspam policy=default score=0 spamscore=0 ipscore=0 phishscore=0 bulkscore=0 adultscore=0 classifier=spam adjust=0 reason=mlx engine=5.0.0-0908210000 definitions=main-1004270178 From: Chuck Swiger In-reply-to: Date: Tue, 27 Apr 2010 13:32:07 -0700 Message-id: References: To: Drew White X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.1078) Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: email address on google through this link X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 27 Apr 2010 20:32:14 -0000 On Apr 27, 2010, at 1:00 PM, Drew White wrote: > http://www.mavetju.org/mail/view_message.php?list=freebsd-questions&id=2614063 > > My email address is showing up in google from this thread, I get a lot of > spam at this email address... Is there anything we can do about this? Nope, sorry. Posting to a mailing list which is archived at dozens (if not hundreds) of mirrors means the address is public. > Perhaps turning off people's email address showing in these threads is > possible.. Thank You - Trying to clean up. Some mailing lists have attempted to obfuscate email addresses. That seems to be mostly futile, as spammers not only suck postings from lists directly before some archive tries to obscure them on a webpage being displayed, the spammers also use extensive dictionary attacks and will hit email addresses which have never been published anywhere. Using better anti-spam methods (including training your junk mail filter(s) on ham vs spam) is doable, whereas hiding email addresses tends to not work. Regards, -- -Chuck