From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Aug 23 16:57:06 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 05A8216A41A for ; Thu, 23 Aug 2007 16:57:06 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from peter@bsdly.net) Received: from skapet.datadok.no (cl-426.sto-01.se.sixxs.net [IPv6:2001:16d8:ff00:1a9::2]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A91FA13C457 for ; Thu, 23 Aug 2007 16:57:05 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from peter@bsdly.net) Received: from thingy.bsdly.net ([10.168.103.11] helo=thingy.datadok.no.bsdly.net ident=peter) by skapet.datadok.no with esmtp (Exim 4.62) (envelope-from ) id 1IOFzU-0001el-9T for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Thu, 23 Aug 2007 18:57:04 +0200 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: From: peter@bsdly.net (Peter N. M. Hansteen) Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2007 18:57:02 +0200 In-Reply-To: (fbsd2@a1poweruser.com's message of "Thu, 23 Aug 2007 09:11:21 -0400") Message-ID: <87r6lumboh.fsf@thingy.datadok.no> User-Agent: Gnus/5.1007 (Gnus v5.10.7) XEmacs/21.4.19 (berkeley-unix) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Subject: Re: spammers harvesting emaill address from this list X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2007 16:57:06 -0000 "fbsd2" writes: > It only takes 2-3 weeks after changing my email address I use on the list > before I start receiving spam on the new email address. Spammers have their robots harvest addresses from a number of sources, including but not limited to web pages of all kinds and any and all files accessible from malware infected hosts. > Other non-fbsd lists I belong to remove the posters email address > before the post gets sent to the list members. Why can't this list > do the same thing Seriously, I can see some logic in removing or obfuscating email addresses in web accessible list archives, but making it hard to impossible for other list subscribers to followup to poster would make the freebsd mailing lists a lot less useful. Making spammers fun to watch: Publish your list of known bad spamtrap addresses, watch them use their harvested garbage to trigger their own descent into the spamd tarpit. Details via selected posts in my blog (the blogspot.com ref in the signature). Cheers, -- Peter N. M. Hansteen, member of the first RFC 1149 implementation team http://bsdly.blogspot.com/ http://www.datadok.no/ http://www.nuug.no/ "Remember to set the evil bit on all malicious network traffic" delilah spamd[29949]: 85.152.224.147: disconnected after 42673 seconds.