Date: Sun, 30 Nov 2003 23:36:22 +0100 From: Bernd Walter <ticso@cicely12.cicely.de> To: Scott Mitchell <scott+freebsd@fishballoon.org> Cc: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: SPAM!! Message-ID: <20031130223621.GI81181@cicely12.cicely.de> In-Reply-To: <20031123213816.GB74141@llama.fishballoon.org> References: <20031122203032.B4A7C43FB1@mx1.FreeBSD.org> <1069535527.722.15.camel@klamath> <20031122235612.GC4757@angeldust.chaos> <3FC0FDFE.1080108@isi.edu> <20031123213816.GB74141@llama.fishballoon.org>
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On Sun, Nov 23, 2003 at 09:38:16PM +0000, Scott Mitchell wrote: > 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? Thinking about this is woth nothing anyway. I know for shure that spammers are already sniffing SMTP transfers to gather addresses. -- B.Walter BWCT http://www.bwct.de ticso@bwct.de info@bwct.de
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