From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Oct 24 10:00:31 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1B74016A4CE for ; Sun, 24 Oct 2004 10:00:31 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mail.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com (mail.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com [65.75.192.90]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9A12E43D49 for ; Sun, 24 Oct 2004 10:00:30 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from tedm@toybox.placo.com) Received: from tedwin2k (nat-rtr.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com [65.75.197.130]) i9OA0Qq69675; Sun, 24 Oct 2004 03:00:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tedm@toybox.placo.com) From: "Ted Mittelstaedt" To: "Rob" , "FreeBSD" Date: Sun, 24 Oct 2004 03:00:26 -0700 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.6604 (9.0.2911.0) Importance: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1441 In-Reply-To: <417B6E4F.4030005@yahoo.com> Subject: RE: Public FreeBSD lists vs. spammers and our private emailaddresses X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 24 Oct 2004 10:00:31 -0000 > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org]On Behalf Of Rob > Sent: Sunday, October 24, 2004 1:57 AM > To: FreeBSD > Subject: Re: Public FreeBSD lists vs. spammers and our private > emailaddresses > > > 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. > Is it really too much to assume that if a person is smart enough to figure out how to subscribe to the mailing list that they have had enough experience with mailing lists to have learned that if they are concerned about spam to just use a throwaway e-mail address? Ted