From owner-freebsd-hubs@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Mar 10 17:53:28 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hubs@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E4A43106567E; Mon, 10 Mar 2008 17:53:28 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from olli@lurza.secnetix.de) Received: from lurza.secnetix.de (unknown [IPv6:2a01:170:102f::2]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5DB978FC1E; Mon, 10 Mar 2008 17:53:28 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from olli@lurza.secnetix.de) Received: from lurza.secnetix.de (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by lurza.secnetix.de (8.14.1/8.14.1) with ESMTP id m2AHrQDx036612; Mon, 10 Mar 2008 18:53:27 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from oliver.fromme@secnetix.de) Received: (from olli@localhost) by lurza.secnetix.de (8.14.1/8.14.1/Submit) id m2AHrQMA036610; Mon, 10 Mar 2008 18:53:26 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from olli) From: Oliver Fromme Message-Id: <200803101753.m2AHrQMA036610@lurza.secnetix.de> To: mit@mitayai.org (Mit Rowe) Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2008 18:53:26 +0100 (CET) In-Reply-To: X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL8] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-2.1.2 (lurza.secnetix.de [127.0.0.1]); Mon, 10 Mar 2008 18:53:27 +0100 (CET) Cc: FreeBSD Hubs Mailing List , freebsd-docs@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Email harvesting on X-BeenThere: freebsd-hubs@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "FreeBSD Distributions Hubs: mail sup ftp" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2008 17:53:29 -0000 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.