From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Aug 11 14:42: 7 2002 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 9EB6E37B400 for ; Sun, 11 Aug 2002 14:42:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sdf.lonestar.org (sdf.lonestar.org [207.202.214.132]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3899C43E75 for ; Sun, 11 Aug 2002 14:42:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bmiddaug@sdf.lonestar.org) Received: by sdf.lonestar.org (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g7BLfko22239; Sun, 11 Aug 2002 21:41:46 GMT Date: Sun, 11 Aug 2002 21:41:46 +0000 (UTC) From: Bob X-X-Sender: bmiddaug@sdf.lonestar.org To: William Palfreman Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Email address harvesting from the FreeBSD archive In-Reply-To: <20020810103419.D8173-100000@bell.lan.palfreman.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I use a role in my email client (pine) and insert NOSPAM in my email address, I really don't get any SPAM. Unfortunately you have to remove NOSPAM to reply. On Sat. Aug 10, 2002, William Palfreman wrote: > I've noticed since I started participating a bit on FreeBSD mailinglist > I seem to be getting a lot more spam. Looking though the archive I see > that no attempt is make to disguise participants email addresses. So > really, sending emails to this list is an guaranty of steadily > increasing amounts of spam, all the way up to hotmail and aol > proportions. And really, while email addresses are undisguised in the > archive, I'd have to be crazy to keep posting to the list, wouldn't I? > > Bill. > > -- bmiddaugNOSPAM@sdf.lonestar.org (please remove NOSPAM to reply) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message