Someone modifies From: field of mail and send them to lists.

Sangwoo Shim ssw at neo.redjade.org
Thu Feb 26 22:24:03 PST 2004


On Wed, Feb 25, 2004 at 10:06:23AM +0000, Ceri Davies wrote:
[...]
> I think it's much more likely that they are harvesting on freebsd-bugs@,
> where most PRs get sent automatically (they all end up on one list or
> other).  A quick look doesn't show much evidence of this happening via
> the webserver.
> 
> > Can the pr pages be modified to convert originators' email like this:
> > someone at somewhere.com -> someone at somewhere.com ?
> 
> While this could possibly be done on the webpages, it will never happen
> within the database itself and therefore will not stop address
> harvesting from the mailing lists, so I suspect it would be ineffective.
> 
> Ceri
> -- 

Well then, I have no choice but canceling the spams as soon as possible
to unburden the moderater a bit. :-) Thanks for your comments.


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