I just want to get off this bloody list.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Or Botton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, December 15, 2002 6:11 AM Subject: Arachne list and Spam > I've just received a spam letter. > > Normally i'd just end it by filing the usual Abuse report and trashing the thing, but this time I noticed something intresting in the headers: > > Received: from amailsender.com (dsl-65-189-152-17.telocity.com [65.189.152.17]) > by ns.arachne.cz (8.12.6/8.12.6) with SMTP id gBD1IDtu032729 for > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Fri, 13 Dec 2002 02:18:15 +0100 > Date: Thu, 12 Dec 2002 17:20:54 +0000 > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > ... Either the spammer is sending the spam TROUGH the Arachne mailing list, or the bastard just grabbed the list of E-Mail addresses from the members listing. > > Any way to prevent this? How about hiding a portion of the members' E-Mail address in the viewable list? > > I've also noticed that the letters I send to the list are saved in a publicly viewable database. Thats fine by me... whats NOT fine is the fact my address can be picked up from Google, which archives the database. That makes my E-Mail address - and yours - a very nice and big Spam Bait. > > Anyone? >
