----- Original Message ----- From: "Roger Millin" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, April 15, 2009 2:10 PM Subject: [canals-list] Re: Security on this list
> Phil wrote: >> A long lost friend, now living abroad, has just contacted me by email. >> Whilst I am pleased to hear from him I was surprised that anyone (a >> non-member >> of this list) could find my email address by searching narrowboats and my >> name, >> and be lead directly to one of my posts on here. > snipped > > If it's any consolation Phil your e-mail address is clipped on the > web-read version and so, as George says, is only available to anyone if > they can guess the missing bit. There is the facility though for me to > e-mail you directly but, again, although I can send you the e-mail I can > never see your full address and it is possibly that facility that your > friend used to contact you. > I have never knowingly had any spam from this list (or any of the Yahoo > Groups) but I definitely have had it from uk.rec.waterways where I use a > dedicated and unique e-mail Yahoo address. I soon started getting spam on > that address but luckily Yahoo spam filtering is pretty good and I only > get about 5 a week that evade the spam filtering. This is a perfectly > manageable number and you can designate it as spam so that the Yahoo > system learns the dodgy addresses. > Roger Thanks George and Riger. You have put my mind to rest :-) Phil
