----- Original Message ----- From: "Andrus Adamchik" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, June 26, 2003 9:48 PM Subject: Proposal: Jakarta should protect community email addresses
> Jakarta website has a very unfortunate and harmful feature - a full mbox > archive at > > http://jakarta.apache.org/mail/ > > This is an invitation to spammers and people who spread viruses. And all > those types are gladly taking advantage of it. Here is a few facts: > > 1. I've been receiving quiet a lot of emails with Outlook viruses > (couldn't care less of course - I never used Outlook :-)) allegedly from > people that I saw posting on this mailing list. Ok, I disregarded those. > There are people who do use Outlook and they may have been infected, and > happened to have my old messages in the INBOX or something. > > 2. Now I noticed that my address is being used in some kind of distributed > virus attack (I see up to 20 bounces a day from invalid addesses claiming > that I sent the original message). Bounces IPs check just fine (aol.com, > sun.com, a few other known domains), so bounces themselves are not spam. > But information in the quoted bounced messages (that contain a virus among > other things) has some correlation with Jakarta comminity members. > > Makes me wonder.... > > [PROPOSAL] > > There maybe other exlanations for these things, but still it would be wise > to pull the archives out of the site. Of course there are people who would > want to search them for information (since browseable Jakarta archives are > ....well, should I say hard to use :-)), but those archives can be > transferred to gmane.org or something... > > Thoughts? Anyone else got hit by that (I remember someone posting > something similar long time ago). > -1. Open Source means "Open" (as in speach, not beer). The Jakarta mail lists are mirrored by very many sites (that aren't under Jakarta control), so it wouldn't help anyway. It is just silly to be the only people that aren't archiving our mailing-lists. And I certainly don't want Jakarta to go on record as endorsing gmain (as much as I love to use them :). > Andrus Adamchik > Check Out Cayenne O/R: > http://objectstyle.org/cayenne/ > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
