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Date:      Thu, 24 May 2007 20:12:40 +0100
From:      Tim Bishop <tim@bishnet.net>
To:        Walter Ian Kaye <freebsd-org@natural-innovations.com>
Cc:        ports@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: email addresses and spam
Message-ID:  <20070524191240.GA26742@carrick.bishnet.net>
In-Reply-To: <a05111b1fc27b90b44277@[192.168.10.103]>
References:  <a05111b1fc27b90b44277@[192.168.10.103]>

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On Thu, May 24, 2007 at 12:02:39PM -0700, Walter Ian Kaye wrote:
> All right, who released my email address to spammers?
> 
> I send mail to ports@freebsd.org, and 2 weeks later I get spam.
> That is not cool, people. You MUST make sure that never happens.
> Now I have to blacklist this address. Sheesh.

When you post to a public mailing list you should accept that your
address will be made public. The archives of this list are available on
freebsd.org and many other sites. Those archives can easily be found by
anything crawling the web.

Tim.


> >Reply-To: "Duke Cole " <dukecolepvt1@yahoo.com>
> >From: "Duke Cole " <dukecolepvt1@yahoo.com>
> >User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X; en-US) 
> >AppleWebKit/103u (KHTML, like Gecko) Safa$
> >X-Accept-Language: en-us
> >To: "dukecolepvt1@aim.com" <freebsd-org@natural-innovations.com>
> >Subject: dukecolepvt1@aim.com
> >Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"
> >Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
> >
> >Dear Sir/Madam,
> >     My name is KELVIN JOOP .  I am the sale manegar of DUKE COLE
> >TEXTILES AND FABRICS COMPANY IN THE UK
> >Presently, our company is looking for a trustworthy bookkeeper,
> >representative in Canada/USA.

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Tim Bishop
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