Date: Tue, 27 Apr 2010 21:56:50 +0100 From: Bruce Cran <bruce@cran.org.uk> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: Drew White <drewsecret@gmail.com> Subject: Re: email address on google through this link Message-ID: <201004272156.50789.bruce@cran.org.uk> In-Reply-To: <EF674C05-A546-4601-B308-9124349BC659@mac.com> References: <t2oaebf0e611004271300x306483efj2201a3fe10f89e0a@mail.gmail.com> <EF674C05-A546-4601-B308-9124349BC659@mac.com>
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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
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