On Sun, 2004-01-04 at 21:53, Daniel Drake wrote: > Tom Fredrik Blenning Klaussen wrote: > > I made my first post ever with this mail address to this list yesterday, > > and already today I receive spam on it. Not such a big deal, since this > > address is only used for receiving list mail, so anything that isn't to > > any of the lists is crap per se. But it's still no fun. > > > > I'm aware that a similar post was made very recently, but it seems like > > someone is eavesdropping, continously scanning the mail archive or > > something. > > It is more likely to be a "bot" - a program looking for as many email > addresses as it can find. A program like this could be subscribed to the list > and indexing every address, or perhaps picking addresses up through archives > (a google-search for "gentoo-user archive" produces 3 big archives in the top 10). > > > Could anyone think of a resolution to this problem? > > > > Obfurscation of the mail archive? > > Not likely. The only way to do that would be to completely remove the "From:" > header or something. I suppose thats an advantage of forum-like systems, email > addresses arent so easily available. > > Still, you could a spam filter - if configured correctly, they help a lot. I > use one called DisSpam which is fairly simplistic. I've written about it here: > http://www.reactivated.net/disspam.php
As I said earlier, this is not so much of a problem, as it is an annoyance. The real problem is of course that this list is the source for email adresses. What about setting up some honey pots? The list admin could for instance send some kind of email with unique from field, and see what addresses respond. Anyway, just my ravelling. -- ---------- Sincerely Vennlig Hilsen Tom Fredrik Klaussen Rosendalsvn. 16B N-1166 Oslo Norway -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
