On Mon, Feb 23, 2004 at 08:50:25AM +0000, Chris Green wrote: >On Sun, Feb 22, 2004 at 03:16:12PM -0500, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: >> On Sun, 22 Feb 2004, Elvin Peterson wrote: >>>--- Chris Green <chris<at>areti<dot>co<dot>uk> wrote: >>Please configure your mail client to not quote raw e-mail addresses in >>replies -- they're just so much fodder for spambots. >> >I don't believe that E-Mail addresses appearing here attract much spam.
The sources log file is filled with spam attempts to accounts on sources.redhat.com/cygwin.com that obviously came from reaping email addresses from mailing lists. >According to research done on this the vast bulk of spam gets to >addresses which appear on (popular) web pages and my experience bears >this out. That sort of presupposes that the mailing list archives are not popular. That's debatable.
