Hi all (especially Jeff !) As someone who has just recently added a list to Mail Archive, I'm particularly concerned by the fact that though there are certain anti-spam measures for mail From: headers, the archive doesn't attempt to obfuscate e-mail addreses of people who have addresses included within the BODY of the message.
e.g. on this Gossip list, the following is plainly visible. --------8<----- snip -----8<-------- [Gossip] Re: Is there a limit on archive size or # of messages? ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- From: Michael Coxe Subject: [Gossip] Re: Is there a limit on archive size or # of messages? Date: Sun, 18 Feb 2001 11:31:48 -0800 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- On 02/18/01, Jeff Breidenbach (as "[EMAIL PROTECTED]") wrote: --------8<----- snip -----8<-------- So Jeff's full e-mail address will still be visible to anyone who wants to harvest it from the list by looking for person@domain type addresses (made easier because they're generally in quotes, < > or similar delimiters, or have a usual "On xxx, someone wrote:" type lead-in). With a big enough archive to go back on, and assuming that they just harvest the lot and there are plenty of replies to be seen (such as the one I've quoted), it's possible that a cleverly crafted spambot will eventually (and quite easily) capture the e-mail addresses of nearly everyone who subscribes to the list and contributes (rather than "lurks). Comments ? Suggestions ? Possible change request (Jeff ?) ?? Regards Jason Armistead _______________________________________________ Gossip mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://jab.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gossip
