Email addresses (at least mine is) are exposed at the "reply to" button at
the bottom of the messages. The actual code:
<INPUT TYPE="HIDDEN" NAME="user" VALUE="sachapman"> <INPUT TYPE
="HIDDEN" NAME="host" VALUE="aep.com"> <INPUT TYPE="HIDDEN" NAME="subject"
VALUE="Re: Background on SCO"> <INPUT TYPE="HIDDEN" NAME="msgid" VALUE
="[EMAIL PROTECTED]"> Reply via email
to<br> <INPUT TYPE="SUBMIT" VALUE=" Scott Chapman ">
I'm thinking that's "harvestable" with relatively little effort.
Interesting that a few weeks ago I started receiving spam at this email
address at the rate of about 1 per day. Now I try to be relatively careful
about where I intentionally give out my email address and this list is
about the only one that I've recently posted to. 1 spam per day is not a
big problem (yet) but it is greater than the amount I previously received
either at work or home. For whatever reason the archive at that site only
goes back to 5/31. I don't know whether that's just when they purged it or
when linux-390 was added. If it's the later, that corresponds reasonably
closely with when I started receiving the spam.
Like I said, not a big problem for me yet, just my 2 cents.
Scott Chapman
Gregg C Levine
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07/01/03 05:48 PM
Please respond to
Linux on 390 Port
Hello from Gregg C Levine
Well, yes, Rich, I do care, and no I don't like it. If I need to find
a message, I'll check my locally stored messages, here. If I don't
have it, I'll ask here for the locations of the Marist site. However,
for some this could be a good idea. I wonder if they remember to
obscure the addresses? And I'm not going to reiterate, where I saw
that thread before, and its subsequent outcome. Oh, and thank you for
bringing this up.
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf
Of
> Richard Troth
> Sent: Tuesday, July 01, 2003 5:39 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: [LINUX-390] list admin: we're being tracked
>
> FYI, for those who care about such things,
> this list is being tracked by http://www.mail-archive.com/.
> Sorry for the duplicate info if this was mentioned before.
>
> Why should you care?
> Such tracking is easy fodder for e-mail address harvesters. BAD
> Tracking services make web search of the list easy. GOOD
> Personally, I have other ways of checking the archives,
> so I prefer to NOT have the list tracked nor peered to NetNews.
> But I must confess that I have used such services.
>
> -- R;
