From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Aug 10 7:40:33 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 AF83837B400 for ; Sat, 10 Aug 2002 07:40:30 -0700 (PDT) Received: from wonkity.com (wonkity.com [63.93.4.4]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2F83B43E72 for ; Sat, 10 Aug 2002 07:40:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wblock@wonkity.com) Received: from wonkity.com (localhost.wonkity.com [127.0.0.1]) by wonkity.com (8.12.1/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g7AEeRuF046121; Sat, 10 Aug 2002 08:40:27 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from wblock@wonkity.com) Received: from localhost (wblock@localhost) by wonkity.com (8.12.1/8.12.1/Submit) with ESMTP id g7AEeRnG046118; Sat, 10 Aug 2002 08:40:27 -0600 (MDT)?g (envelope-from wblock@wonkity.com) Date: Sat, 10 Aug 2002 08:40:27 -0600 (MDT) From: Warren Block 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 On Sat, 10 Aug 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? Name one way to be on the internet and *not* be subject to increasing amounts of spam. I will filter and remove incoming spam, but I will not filter the stuff I write to avoid it. Many people use accounts at the free mail ISPs for this kind of purpose. -Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota USA To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message