Zitat von Lari Huttunen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Dear all, > > Would it be possible not to archive people's valid email addresses at: > <http://asg.web.cmu.edu/archive/index.php?mailbox=archive.info-cyrus> > since it took less than 90 hours for the address I used in posting to > the mailing list to get harvested and utilized by spammers? > > I posted a message at: > Thu, 30 Sep 2004 20:04:48 +0300 > and received the first (Nigerian) spam at: > Mon, 04 Oct 2004 07:59:06 +0300 > > This was the first and only time the aforementioned address had been used > to post to the mailing list. (Prior, it had only been used in the > subscription process.) > > > Many mailing list web archives protect the posters' email addresses by > automatically transforming the email addresses into <EMAIL-PROTECTED>. > This doesn indeed reduce the number hits the spammers can achieve through > website harvesting. > > Sorry for the OT post, but I just thought the list readers should and might > want to know.
You should never ever use your real mailaddress for mailing-lists. Create a alias for this purpose and only use it for mailing-lists. If it gets to spammy, change it. Address-harvesting is done in many ways today like subscribing to mailing-lists to get the addresses, so hiding it in the web-archives don't save you from spam. Regards Andreas --- Cyrus Home Page: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus Cyrus Wiki/FAQ: http://cyruswiki.andrew.cmu.edu List Archives/Info: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus/mailing-list.html
