Date: Sun, 23 Nov 2003 01:28:36 +0100 From: Andreas Kohn <andreas.kohn@gmx.net> To: Thomas Repantis <trep@cs.ucr.edu> Cc: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: SPAM!! Message-ID: <1069547316.722.30.camel@klamath> In-Reply-To: <20031122235612.GC4757@angeldust.chaos> References: <20031122203032.B4A7C43FB1@mx1.FreeBSD.org> <20031122235612.GC4757@angeldust.chaos>
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--=-Ekyu35KDvg3plqAmi5+7 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable > On Sat, Nov 22, 2003 at 10:12:07PM +0100, Andreas Kohn wrote: > > On Sat, 2003-11-22 at 21:30, Tommy Heaney wrote: > > > I noticed that the day I joined this list that I began recieiving abo= ut 10 > > > virus spam messages, which I have never gotten before. I am pretty = sure it > > > is as a result of joining the mailing list, so whatever people need t= o do to > > > make sure they aren't being used to mass mail viruses or that the lis= t isn't > > > vulnerable to leaking email addresses, please do. > >=20 > > Hi, > >=20 > > the archives of this list are available through numerous websites. It > > should not be surprising that some email address gathering bot found > > your address via those pages.=20 > >=20 On Sun, 2003-11-23 at 00:56, Thomas Repantis wrote: > Can't this archiving take place in a more intelligent manner? For exampl= e=20 > using "user host.org", instead of "user at host.org", "user[at]host.org" = or=20 > (Goddess forbid!) user@host.org. What would that change? It would just be another form of saying "user@host.org" without saying "user@host.org".=20 >=20 > I think it's embarrassing the fact that in the official archives one can = see=20 > the last of the forementioned options! >=20 > If you think this is a reasonable idea, whom should we contact? The mail= man=20 > authors, the freebsd.org webmaster, someone else? >=20 > Cheers,=20 > Thomas >=20 >=20 If this really is such a problem, I would suggest mailing the mailman authors, and trying to get the FreeBSD.org's mailman updated afterwards. But I don't think that this would help stopping spam. More than one archive exists(which is good, because google finds answers better :) ). Personally I think using some sort of spam filters should work quite well. With only the filters of GMX FreeMail I am able to filter out most spam, with more customized filters it should be possible to have a largely spam-free mail experience. Regards, --=20 Andreas Kohn <andreas.kohn@gmx.net> --=-Ekyu35KDvg3plqAmi5+7 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQA/v/80Yucd7Ow1ygwRAt5pAJ0WO2xKBPuo0PO5O88/i6MbkGpjQQCeKjef 7GMhf4tBbY96jgzSLXYMe50= =Oadb -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-Ekyu35KDvg3plqAmi5+7--
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