Angela: CC'ing the list so you hopefully don't get 300 of these messages. >:)
On Wed, Mar 27, 2013 at 03:39:45PM -0700, Angela Barone wrote: > I just noticed something that's very disconcerting. Our email > addresses are being posted online from this mailing list. Does > anyone know about this? I was doing a search when I came > across this page: > > http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.beginners/2013/03/msg122680.html > > As you can see, my email address is there for the world to see. > Is there a way to prevent this from happening? It seems it > would be so easy for someone to scape that site for our > addresses. The list blocks the address of the sender, but if > there's an address in the body of the email, it's sent through. Yes, I'm sure most of us are aware. My E-mail address(es) are also in my public GitHub repositories, and I've probably knowingly posted them to public discussion boards on a few occasions. I still barely get any spam, despite this. I only get 1 - 5 spam messages per day, and 95% of them are caught by G-mail's spam filter. It's just part of my daily routine to open that mailbox, scan it for a false positives, and then 'delete all'. > Very shortly after I posted to this list I started getting > spam. I couldn't figure out what had happened, but this could > be why. There's really nothing that you can do about it. It's a public mailing list so I think that anybody can freely archive it (there's no way to control how they do that). On top of that, everybody subscribed to the mailing list also has every poster's E-mail address. So even if you couldn't scrape the archive for them you would just have to subscibe to the mailing list and you would still be handed the addresses. There's no real difference. You just have to live with it, or find/write spam filters. Alternatively, you could post to the list with a personal E-mail address that you don't care about (it's a little late for that now though). > BTW, I noticed it's not the same for everyone. Some peoples > addresses are shown while others are not. That probably has more to do with the mail client (or person) that wrote the quote header, not the archive software. It appears that my mutt config is currently only attributing the message to your name, not your E-mail address. Which sure, helps to keep your address out of archives, I guess, but it could also cause confusion if somebody else starts posting as the same name. I don't remember if I configured that or if it's default.. Some clients might truncate the address to make it invalid or something while still giving sufficient context to match an address. That sounds reasonable, but still not flawless. Welcome to the wild, wild, Intarnetz. :) There's little point to unsubscribing too. Your E-mail address is already publicly visible on the Web. And the spam could be unrelated to the list anyway. Anybody could have passed your E-mail address along until it found its way to a spammer's bot. Just avoid replying to any spam messages, and avoid fetching any URLs found within them (make sure your mail client doesn't do this automatically) and hopefully the spammers will move on to more vulnerable prey. Regards, -- Brandon McCaig <bamcc...@gmail.com> <bamcc...@castopulence.org> Castopulence Software <https://www.castopulence.org/> Blog <http://www.bamccaig.com/> perl -E '$_=q{V zrna gur orfg jvgu jung V fnl. }. q{Vg qbrfa'\''g nyjnlf fbhaq gung jnl.}; tr/A-Ma-mN-Zn-z/N-Zn-zA-Ma-m/;say'
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