From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Apr 11 13:02:26 2015 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [8.8.178.115]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 85853365 for ; Sat, 11 Apr 2015 13:02:26 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-ig0-x22c.google.com (mail-ig0-x22c.google.com [IPv6:2607:f8b0:4001:c05::22c]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (Client CN "smtp.gmail.com", Issuer "Google Internet Authority G2" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 47187FF5 for ; Sat, 11 Apr 2015 13:02:26 +0000 (UTC) Received: by iget9 with SMTP id t9so29594675ige.1 for ; Sat, 11 Apr 2015 06:02:25 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:cc:subject :references:in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=ad/9DZXGUlsXpLf2OBlFey2Cn0+VdJ7PSF2nF1FI3TE=; b=IciJyi9+8lUytJQoPjE26fNRVz3k3of3KlmJehhjLVnKUmdmeAiJuRafp9b2ZDahaF ffiNSzK/fmGoyCBXCvpRO0Dk8gGYgBXFFONumqD6KJeclGEacSeubLIb4KbOS0pxhz5p OI5HbNMQPppEXZudyDWTokQyqCGb19Oqvn2dq+SAnL2phWz178hNa1wq3VuUgIIhzIjT nGB6ta37urhKczjzoF65zKKPft/4hV0eAK55d9NTZke5xTGQc5Ik4JzdrsNuekz+Ya1J bCLZVIJlO11l9tPxoB3ZWoWFQw49kWwf0cITQuFaKd7FlpixxKJ1vFGO2I9uABWk7RgV cqbw== X-Received: by 10.42.198.143 with SMTP id eo15mr9469232icb.8.1428757345712; Sat, 11 Apr 2015 06:02:25 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [10.0.10.5] (cpe-76-190-244-6.neo.res.rr.com. [76.190.244.6]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPSA id ck8sm1225007igc.21.2015.04.11.06.02.24 (version=TLSv1 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA bits=128/128); Sat, 11 Apr 2015 06:02:25 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <55291B68.4060509@gmail.com> Date: Sat, 11 Apr 2015 09:02:32 -0400 From: Ernie Luzar User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.24 (Windows/20100228) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Erich Dollansky Subject: Re: email address being harvested from ports website References: <5527D0BD.8060401@gmail.com> <20150411084630.7727dbd2@B85M-HD3-0.alogt.com> In-Reply-To: <20150411084630.7727dbd2@B85M-HD3-0.alogt.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: FreeBSD Questions X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18-1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 11 Apr 2015 13:02:26 -0000 Erich Dollansky wrote: > Hi, > > On Fri, 10 Apr 2015 09:31:41 -0400 > Ernie Luzar 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. > > Erich > 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. 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.