From owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Nov 23 13:39:10 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5E3E816A4CE for ; Sun, 23 Nov 2003 13:39:10 -0800 (PST) Received: from mta06-svc.ntlworld.com (mta06-svc.ntlworld.com [62.253.162.46]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 07D7743F75 for ; Sun, 23 Nov 2003 13:39:09 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from scott@fishballoon.org) Received: from llama.fishballoon.org ([81.104.195.124]) by mta06-svc.ntlworld.comESMTP <20031123213908.CSTZ13354.mta06-svc.ntlworld.com@llama.fishballoon.org>; Sun, 23 Nov 2003 21:39:08 +0000 Received: from scott by llama.fishballoon.org with local (Exim 4.24; FreeBSD) id 1AO1vs-000KKK-8g; Sun, 23 Nov 2003 21:38:16 +0000 Date: Sun, 23 Nov 2003 21:38:16 +0000 From: Scott Mitchell To: Lars Eggert Message-ID: <20031123213816.GB74141@llama.fishballoon.org> References: <20031122203032.B4A7C43FB1@mx1.FreeBSD.org> <1069535527.722.15.camel@klamath> <20031122235612.GC4757@angeldust.chaos> <3FC0FDFE.1080108@isi.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3FC0FDFE.1080108@isi.edu> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 4.9-RELEASE i386 Sender: Scott Mitchell cc: Thomas Repantis cc: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: SPAM!! X-BeenThere: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Mobile computing with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 23 Nov 2003 21:39:10 -0000 On Sun, Nov 23, 2003 at 10:35:42AM -0800, Lars Eggert wrote: > Thomas Repantis wrote: > >Can't this archiving take place in a more intelligent manner? For example > >using "user host.org", instead of "user at host.org", "user[at]host.org" > >or (Goddess forbid!) user@host.org. > > These schemes don't help. Nothing prevents an address-gathering bot to > harvest addresses from the mailing list directly. Or more likely, from the various newsgroups that these lists are copied to. The fact is, if you're going to post to any kind of public list, either use an address you don't care about or accept that it's going to attract spam and take steps to deal with that. It sucks, but what else can you do? Scott -- =========================================================================== Scott Mitchell | PGP Key ID | "Eagles may soar, but weasels Cambridge, England | 0x54B171B9 | don't get sucked into jet engines" scott at fishballoon.org | 0xAA775B8B | -- Anon