Date: Wed, 25 Nov 2009 17:06:44 -0800 From: "Ronald F. Guilmette" <rfg@tristatelogic.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Spammer data mining and www.freebsd.org Message-ID: <8848.1259197604@tristatelogic.com>
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I just got a spam from some numbnuts spammer who said (in the spam), and I quote: >Why would anyone still pay recruitment agency fees? Wouldn't you prefer to >RECRUIT AS MANY PEOPLE</strong> per campaign for $499? > >Your contact details were on > 'http://www.ca.freebsd.org/doc/en/articles/contributors/article.html#STAFF-COMMITTERS' >and we thought you should know that, during Nove>mber, you can RECRUIT >AS MANY PEOPLE per campaign... Jeezze Louise! In the first place, I didn't even know that my name or e-mail address were listed on that page, and I was really rather surprised to find that they were. Why the bleep am _I_ on there? Yea, I've hacked free software from time to time in my career... more than just a little... but I really can't recall having ever ``contributed'' to FreeBSD in any significant or meaningful way. I mean I'm honored to be listed in with such illustrious company, but in all modesty, I don't deserve to be. But anyway, regardless of that, I have to ask: (1) Why the bleep are so many e-mail addresses listed on that page in plain text, and without any sort of spammer harvesting protection whatsoever? And (2) who should I gripe to about this sorry state of affairs? webmaster(at)freebsd.org? I don't expect the email addresses to be protected by captchas or anything that convoluted, but the webmaster certainly could have at least replaced `@' with `(at)' or some such thing. So did anybody else get that same spam?
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