On 14 Dec 2002, David Crossley wrote: > I recently received various spam like the one attached. > The reason i was targeted is that my email address is > listed as a contributor on the "Cocoon changes" page. > > This is a serious threat to open source. We try to > acknowledge contributions by listing their name and address. > Yet that actually does them harm - they will get spammed. > So they may stop contributing, which equates to malaise > for open source. > > The Apache websites provide well-structured web pages, > and excellent tools with which to process them. Foiled. > Spammers can harvest us so easily with a Cocoon-based > page scraper. > > Cocoon can do something about this. We can get the > stylesheets for our xdocs to not generate any > mailto: links and we can obfuscate the actual addresses. > > What do you think?
I think this was the reason why Peter Donald already changed his mail addresses in Avalonland to a none machine usable form. Giacomo --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
