On Jan 31, 2004, at 7:57 am, jkw wrote:
i *NEVER* received spam before signing up on gentoo-user, and now i receive about *1 MB* of spam/viruses each day. therefore it's obvious that gentoo-user is the source of the spam and viruses.
This is an OLD thread. Yes, the list IS harvested for addresses by spammers. But it also gets pretty old pretty quick hearing about it every few weeks from people who appear to think they've discovered something new when they post on this subject.
now, guess what? go to google groups (dejanews, whatever) and look at the group linux.gentoo.user. i believe that's where and how the spam/virus programs harvest addresses.
Google Groups has only started carrying this list recently - the spam-to-list-addresses problem predates that. There are at least 2 other archives of the list that I am aware of, so spammers could be harvesting these, or simply have subscribed to the list themselves.
... how can we prevent gentoo-user from being archived on google, or stop google from making email addresses public information?
Sorry to sound unsympathetic, but it really clogs my mailbox when people complain about this issue. I can't see any way to resolve it, so don't want to hear about it unless you have suggestions for doing so.
Just get a Bayesian mail-filter like everyone else, and stop whining.
$ esearch -Sc spam
[MN] crm114 (20030920): A powerful text processing tools, mainly used for spam filtering
[ N] Mail-SpamAssassin (2.60-r1): Perl Mail::SpamAssassin - A program to filter spam
[ N] pyzor (0.4.0-r1): Pyzor is a distributed, collaborative spam detection and filtering network
[ N] bmf (0.9.4): A fast and small Bayesian spam filter
[ N] tmda (0.92): Python-based SPAM reduction system
[ N] disspam (0.12): A Perl script that removes spam from POP3 mailboxes based on RBLs.
[ N] razor (2.12): Vipul's Razor is a distributed, collaborative spam detection and filtering network
[ U] bogofilter (0.13.7.3): Bayesian spam filter designed with fast algorithms, and tuned for speed.
[ N] spamass-milter (0.2.0): A Sendmail milter for SpamAssassin
[MN] spampd (2.11-r1): spampd is a program used within an e-mail delivery system to scan messages for possible Unsolicited Commercial E-mail content.
[ N] mailfilter (0.4.0): Mailfilter is a utility to get rid of unwanted spam mails
[ N] popfile (0.21.1): Anti-spam filter
Stroller.
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