I've traded a few emails with Michael regarding this topic. All you have to do is Google your email address and you'll see that messages to this group are publicly viewable online. The direct sender's email address is stripped, but any message which was replied to and now a part of the message body will remain.
Posting online is a good thing for searching and archival purposes, but not when email addresses are posted as well. Spammers will scrape them and use found addresses for spam. As many of us are, I'm protective of my email address. For quite awhile, my email address would produce no search results in Google. Then House of Fusion started showing up and now other sites have pulled in House of Fusion content to their sites, where I now get results. On 5/3, Michael acknowledged the problem and said he would fix it. On 5/31, I sent him another message to let him know that it still wasn't fixed. Now another month later, it's still happening. Let him know that you're concerned about this. Many voices will be louder than a few. Rob -----Original Message----- From: James Wolfe [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, July 05, 2007 8:41 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: Spam to my CF-Talk address I have a custom address which only receives mail for CF-Talk. I have shared this address with no one and have not used it in any location other than on the CF-Talk forum. I have, as of yesterday, begun receiving spam on that address (3 messages thus far). Without accusing Michael of selling our addresses, I wanted to know if anyone else has had the same experience. An sampling of the messages I received are: Date: 7/4 12:44AM From: "Carol" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: The following is TangLong International Group INC the product message which brings for you. Date: 7/4 4:32AM From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Your email was selected (won) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Upgrade to Adobe ColdFusion MX7 The most significant release in over 10 years. Upgrade & see new features. http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion?sdid=RVJR Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:282948 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
