Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2008 18:53:26 +0100 (CET) From: Oliver Fromme <olli@lurza.secnetix.de> To: mit@mitayai.org (Mit Rowe) Cc: FreeBSD Hubs Mailing List <freebsd-hubs@freebsd.org>, freebsd-docs@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Email harvesting on Message-ID: <200803101753.m2AHrQMA036610@lurza.secnetix.de> In-Reply-To: <b5365ac60803100927k19565f70l6386a4398c8316be@mail.gmail.com>
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Mit Rowe wrote: > In the online documentation for freebsd, such as on this page: > > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/mirrors-ftp.html > > Unmunged email addresses are scattered throughout. Which is a good thing. I think it is extremely annoying when you have to copy an address and "fix" it in order to send a message to a person. You should be able to just click on it. That's the purpose of the web and hyperlinks. I certainly do not want my address to be "munged" in any way, because I do want to be easily reachable. That's why I have an e-mail address. Apart from that -- as Rich pointed out -- such "munging" is rather useless for spam prevention. > I have received 200+ spam messages in the past 12 hours alone sent to that > address, and that's after some pretty good filters... You should use better anti-spam software. I saw almost zero spam messages in the past 12 hours, despite my address being listed unmunged on quite a lot of web sites. Greylisting, some simple filtering, a bayesian filter and similar things catches almost all of it. Best regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH & Co. KG, Marktplatz 29, 85567 Grafing b. M. Handelsregister: Registergericht Muenchen, HRA 74606, Geschäftsfuehrung: secnetix Verwaltungsgesellsch. mbH, Handelsregister: Registergericht Mün- chen, HRB 125758, Geschäftsführer: Maik Bachmann, Olaf Erb, Ralf Gebhart FreeBSD-Dienstleistungen, -Produkte und mehr: http://www.secnetix.de/bsd One Unix to rule them all, One Resolver to find them, One IP to bring them all and in the zone to bind them.
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