From owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Oct 15 08:50:46 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 68F8216A4B3; Wed, 15 Oct 2003 08:50:46 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.qubesoft.com (gate.qubesoft.com [217.169.36.34]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7A50843FCB; Wed, 15 Oct 2003 08:50:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dfr@nlsystems.com) Received: from bluebottle.qubesoft.com (bluebottle.qubesoft.com [192.168.1.2]) by mail.qubesoft.com (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id h9FFntFH006367; Wed, 15 Oct 2003 16:49:55 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from dfr@nlsystems.com) Received: from builder02.qubesoft.com (builder02.qubesoft.com [192.168.1.8]) h9FFnpbx014690; Wed, 15 Oct 2003 16:49:52 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from dfr@nlsystems.com) From: Doug Rabson To: Andrey Chernov In-Reply-To: <20031015151542.GA38522@nagual.pp.ru> References: <20031015112920.GA36404@nagual.pp.ru> <20031015132551.GA94612@freebie.xs4all.nl> <20031015143545.GA1667@gothmog.gr> <20031015151542.GA38522@nagual.pp.ru> Content-Type: text/plain Message-Id: <1066232987.19154.2.camel@builder02.qubesoft.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.0 Date: 15 Oct 2003 16:49:51 +0100 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: Giorgos Keramidas cc: doc@FreeBSD.org cc: developers@FreeBSD.org cc: Wilko Bulte Subject: Re: hiding e-mail adresses needed badly X-BeenThere: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Documentation project List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2003 15:50:46 -0000 On Wed, 2003-10-15 at 16:15, Andrey Chernov wrote: > On Wed, Oct 15, 2003 at 17:35:45 +0300, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > > Once an email address has been public it's always public. You can't > > stop spammers from sharing addresses they harvested already by hiding > > those addresses now. They already have them. > > I mean new spammers and their harvesters, not old ones. > > > Bearing this in mind, it's obvious why hiding your address now won't > > solve your immediate spam problem. It might help in avoiding similar > > troubles of future subscribers, but I doubt it will prevent it altogether. > > I solve immediate spam problem in different ways. Suggesting that I mean > to reduce not immediate but future problems. Unfortunately, your email address is all over the various mail archives and uncounted mirrors and caches of those archives. The damage is done - your email address is irreparably compromised, as is mine, sadly.