Date: Sun, 12 Apr 2015 14:58:18 +0800 From: Erich Dollansky <erichsfreebsdlist@alogt.com> To: Ernie Luzar <luzar722@gmail.com> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: email address being harvested from ports website Message-ID: <20150412145818.741737ad@B85M-HD3-0.alogt.com> In-Reply-To: <55291B68.4060509@gmail.com> References: <5527D0BD.8060401@gmail.com> <20150411084630.7727dbd2@B85M-HD3-0.alogt.com> <55291B68.4060509@gmail.com>
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Hi, On Sat, 11 Apr 2015 09:02:32 -0400 Ernie Luzar <luzar722@gmail.com> wrote: > Erich Dollansky wrote: > > On Fri, 10 Apr 2015 09:31:41 -0400 > > Ernie Luzar <luzar722@gmail.com> wrote: > > > >> I maintain 4 ports and within the last 6 months I have started > >> receiving large amounts of spam on the ports maintainer email > > > > this is an old subject. Some harvester got registered here and > > collect the address of every e-mail posted to this list. They > > started a long time ago by directly answering every e-mail sent out > > by the list and went now to typical spamming. > > > > There is no real way against this. Registration makes it more > > difficult but not impossible. > > > > But they are very easy to filter. > > > >> The http://www.freebsd.org/ports/ website is being harvested for > >> email addresses. > >> > > It is not the web-site, it is the lists from where they get the > > e-mail addresses. > > > >> We all have personally experienced spam email. Now the volunteers > >> who create and maintain the ports in the Freebsd ports collection > >> are being targeted with spam. > >> > > They are very easy to filter. So, why bother. > > > > As the O.P. the maintainer email addresses are not used for every day > use. There are special email addresses created just for the > individual port. After updating the ports with new email addresses > that have never had email traffic using them I still got spam within > a few days of the the port update. > isn't the mail address then in the port's makefile? The filtering of spam becomes a problem then. > This has nothing to do with the email address I use for this list. > > The http://www.freebsd.org/ports/ website is being harvested for > email addresses. > > The maintainer email should not be shown to the public. > And the e-mail address in the Makefile? I think, somebody who can write a script to get the e-mail addresses out of the website like this should not have a real problem to get them out of the ports. Of course, the e-mail address should be hardly needed on the web site. Everybody who has to contact the maintainer also has access to the makefile. Erich
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