From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Apr 27 20:57:21 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 571C51065672 for ; Tue, 27 Apr 2010 20:57:21 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bruce@cran.org.uk) Received: from muon.cran.org.uk (muon.cran.org.uk [109.74.192.160]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1B2858FC1E for ; Tue, 27 Apr 2010 20:57:20 +0000 (UTC) Received: from muon.cran.org.uk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by muon.cran.org.uk (Postfix) with ESMTP id 90067C400E; Tue, 27 Apr 2010 20:56:58 +0000 (UTC) X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.2.5 (2008-06-10) on muon.cran.org.uk X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.3 required=8.0 tests=BAYES_00,NO_RELAYS autolearn=ham version=3.2.5 Received: from core.draftnet (unknown [IPv6:2001:470:1f09:690:224:1dff:fe1f:2347]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by muon.cran.org.uk (Postfix) with ESMTPSA; Tue, 27 Apr 2010 20:56:58 +0000 (UTC) From: Bruce Cran To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Tue, 27 Apr 2010 21:56:50 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.13.2 (FreeBSD/9.0-CURRENT; KDE/4.4.2; amd64; ; ) References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201004272156.50789.bruce@cran.org.uk> Cc: Drew White Subject: Re: email address on google through this link X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 27 Apr 2010 20:57:21 -0000 On Tuesday 27 April 2010 21:32:07 Chuck Swiger wrote: > On Apr 27, 2010, at 1:00 PM, Drew White wrote: > > http://www.mavetju.org/mail/view_message.php?list=freebsd-questions&id=26 > > 14063 > > > > My email address is showing up in google from this thread, I get a lot of > > spam at this email address... Is there anything we can do about this? > > Nope, sorry. Posting to a mailing list which is archived at dozens (if not > hundreds) of mirrors means the address is public. > > > Perhaps turning off people's email address showing in these threads is > > possible.. Thank You - Trying to clean up. > > Some mailing lists have attempted to obfuscate email addresses. That seems > to be mostly futile, as spammers not only suck postings from lists > directly before some archive tries to obscure them on a webpage being > displayed, the spammers also use extensive dictionary attacks and will hit > email addresses which have never been published anywhere. At least one mailing list I'm on obfuscates the addresses on the server so all messages would, for example, appear to come *from* freebsd- questions@freebsd.org. -- Bruce Cran