spammers harvesting emaill address from this list

[Gary Kline]

On Thu, Aug 23, 2007 at 06:57:02PM +0200, Peter N. M. Hansteen wrote:
> "fbsd2" <fbsd2 at a1poweruser.com> writes:
> 
> > It only takes 2-3 weeks after changing my email address I use on the list
> > before I start receiving spam on the new email address.
> 
> Spammers have their robots harvest addresses from a number of sources,
> including but not limited to web pages of all kinds and any and all
> files accessible from malware infected hosts.
> 
> > Other non-fbsd lists I belong to remove the posters email address
> > before the post gets sent to the list members.  Why can't this list
> > do the same thing 
> 
> Seriously, I can see some logic in removing or obfuscating email
> addresses in web accessible list archives, but making it hard to
> impossible for other list subscribers to followup to poster would make
> the freebsd mailing lists a lot less useful.
> 
> Making spammers fun to watch: Publish your list of known bad spamtrap
> addresses, watch them use their harvested garbage to trigger their own
> descent into the spamd tarpit.  Details via selected posts in my blog
> (the blogspot.com ref in the signature).
> 

	If your user login is "smith", you could have all mailing
	list mail sent to "smitty" and keep an open mutt or other reader 
	a click away.  Spam could be easily flagged ... .

	I'm bcc'ing this to my account with evolution to check out your
	blog info.  I've run into problems with spamd and other suites.

	gary

> Cheers,
> -- 
> Peter N. M. Hansteen, member of the first RFC 1149 implementation team
> http://bsdly.blogspot.com/ http://www.datadok.no/ http://www.nuug.no/
> "Remember to set the evil bit on all malicious network traffic"
> delilah spamd[29949]: 85.152.224.147: disconnected after 42673 seconds.
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