email addresses and spam

[Tim Bishop]

On Thu, May 24, 2007 at 12:02:39PM -0700, Walter Ian Kaye wrote:
> All right, who released my email address to spammers?
> 
> I send mail to ports at freebsd.org, and 2 weeks later I get spam.
> That is not cool, people. You MUST make sure that never happens.
> Now I have to blacklist this address. Sheesh.

When you post to a public mailing list you should accept that your
address will be made public. The archives of this list are available on
freebsd.org and many other sites. Those archives can easily be found by
anything crawling the web.

Tim.


> >Reply-To: "Duke Cole " <dukecolepvt1 at yahoo.com>
> >From: "Duke Cole " <dukecolepvt1 at yahoo.com>
> >User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X; en-US) 
> >AppleWebKit/103u (KHTML, like Gecko) Safa$
> >X-Accept-Language: en-us
> >To: "dukecolepvt1 at aim.com" <freebsd-org at natural-innovations.com>
> >Subject: dukecolepvt1 at aim.com
> >Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"
> >Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
> >
> >Dear Sir/Madam,
> >     My name is KELVIN JOOP .  I am the sale manegar of DUKE COLE
> >TEXTILES AND FABRICS COMPANY IN THE UK
> >Presently, our company is looking for a trustworthy bookkeeper,
> >representative in Canada/USA.

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