A few days ago I noticed some spam mail in my Gmail inbox and even more in my spam folder, all very recent. This came as a bit of a surprise to me as my email address is relatively new and I had thus far been very careful to protect it. So I did a simple Google search for my plain text email address. To my horror, it returned a post I had made to the Android Developer Google Group not long ago. The result wasn't part of Google Groups but rather some sort of mirroring blog that had reposted my Google Groups post. In general, Google Groups makes an effort to conceal your email address, but this mirroring site displays it prominently in plain text along with your post.
I don't think the purpose of this blog is specifically malice, but rather to collect on advertising accrued from people searching for these posts. However, the dreadful mistake of displaying plain text email addresses makes your email easy prey for a spider, a program used by spammers to harvest email addresses from the web. Either way the site is spam and should be taken down. The site can be found here. http://newsandroidnet.blogspot.com/ If you're interested in protecting your email address and those of others on this Google Group from spam I highly urge you to report this blog to Blogger as a terms of service violation under spam. http://support.google.com/blogger/bin/request.py?hl=en&contact_type=main_tos If you can specifically locate your information on the site I also suggest you take the additional step of reporting it to Blogger as posting of your private information in the hopes that the post may be individually removed. I have already made both of these reports and await action. If enough people report, the action may be swift. Thank you. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
