From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Aug 10 2:43:32 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 90C5E37B400 for ; Sat, 10 Aug 2002 02:43:30 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ntl.com (pc3-farn1-3-cust4.gfd.cable.ntl.com [213.107.74.4]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 918DA43E42 for ; Sat, 10 Aug 2002 02:43:29 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from william@palfreman.com) Received: from bell.lan.palfreman.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ntl.com (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id g7A9jSIu096943 for ; Sat, 10 Aug 2002 10:45:28 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from william@palfreman.com) Received: from localhost (william@localhost) by bell.lan.palfreman.com (8.12.3/8.12.3/Submit) with ESMTP id g7A9jSUe096940 for ; Sat, 10 Aug 2002 10:45:28 +0100 (BST) X-Authentication-Warning: bell.lan.palfreman.com: william owned process doing -bs Date: Sat, 10 Aug 2002 10:45:27 +0100 (BST) From: William Palfreman X-X-Sender: william@bell.lan.palfreman.com To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Email address harvesting from the FreeBSD archive Message-ID: <20020810103419.D8173-100000@bell.lan.palfreman.com> 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'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. -- W. Palfreman. http://www.palfreman.com/william/ Tel: 0771 355 0354 PGP ftp://ftp.palfreman.com/pub/wfpkey.asc To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message