Jeff Elkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said on Tue, 14 Oct 2003 13:20:09 -0400: > On Tuesday 14 October 2003 6:45 am, Andrew Hayes wrote: > >Jeff Elkins wrote: > >> Well, hell. > >> > >> I set up a new address (for family) on my server and inadvertently used it > >> Sunday in a reply to debian-user. It's now being flooded with email > >> viruses and spam. > > > >You aren't the only one, since signing up I've been blasted like > >buggering regardless of Mozillas spam filters, no offense but screw this > > for a game of soldiers. > > It's pretty bad. I'm doing the fetchmail/mailfilter/spamassassin dance, so my > post was mainly just a whine. Exposing a "secure" address was a stupid > mistake on my part :( > > I wonder if anyone has thought of obfustcating email addresses on the list's > web archives? I wonder how many 'bots regularly scrape it for addresses?
Actually, that will do no good. It has been brought up before that the entire list gets mirrored to news://linux.debian.user And in fact, that is where I am reading this from. And it has been pointed out before that the SWEN varients seem to mainly get their addresses from USENET, using built in newservers in the virus code. -- TimC -- http://astronomy.swin.edu.au/staff/tconnors/ Entropy isn't what it used to be. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
