Date: Sun, 24 Oct 2004 17:56:47 +0900 From: Rob <spamrefuse@yahoo.com> To: FreeBSD <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Public FreeBSD lists vs. spammers and our private email addresses Message-ID: <417B6E4F.4030005@yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSI.4.61.0410241555030.4807@dave.horsfall.org> References: <20041015125113.G68950@mippet.ci.com.au> <20041015092119.GA93093@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk> <Pine.BSI.4.58.0410162126550.854@dave.horsfall.org> <417B261B.2050201@yahoo.com> <Pine.BSI.4.61.0410241555030.4807@dave.horsfall.org>
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Dave Horsfall wrote: > >>It would be much better if propagation to the newsgroups and archives >>would scramble the private email addresses, to make such lists unusable >>for collectors of email addresses for sending spam. > > > Trivial to do; just replace "@" with something that a machine cannot > easily parse. LyX (TeX Editor) is also monitored on gmane; my private email address on lyx/gmane shows up as: spamrefuse-WhGre650n7FQFI55V6+gNQ@public.gmane.org Noone who can revert that into a useful email address! Same should be applied to FreeBSD lists, if you ask me. Rob.
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