Hi jrw, > i think there are at least 4 public gold list archives out there, most > of which do some obfuscation of source email address, but an industrious > individual could certainly reconstruct subscriber addresses. but there > are almost certainly harvesters subscribed to all the lists, so the public > archives aren't a factor.
Frankly if someone can be bothered to reconstruct addresses manually or even to subscribe to lists to harvest a few hundred addresses it does not bother me so much. Targetted spam is not the problem... in fact if spammers sent something useful that showed they had gone to the effort to collect my address because I might actually be interested, I would probably give them the time of day to read it. But I don't think anyone is going to bother to construct lists manually to send out Viagra ads. I am sure all that is done by harvester bots. > the source of spam is not e-mail lists, it is spammers. IMO, removing one > or two public archives would not affect spam, but would remove useful > tools from the community. OK. If people find the archives useful, so be it. I was just questioning whether that was in fact the case. I am subscribed to other lists which do not have public archives and I don't get spam from those. And personally I have never used any gold list public archives and find it hard to envisage a circumstance in which I would need to. > several of the bayesian spam filters do a real good job, the one i > use is correctly identifying spam ~90+% of the time. i find that > "spam assassin" is a nice server based filter. OK thanks. Nick --- You are currently subscribed to e-gold-list as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Use e-gold's Secure Randomized Keyboard (SRK) when accessing your e-gold account(s) via the web and shopping cart interfaces to help thwart keystroke loggers and common viruses.
