Craig,
Thanks for your comments. I should first point out that Bill hasn't been
employed with GW Micro for some time now. So you might want to update
your address book.
Second, the GW-Info email list is a public discussion forum. You can
view archives on our website at www.gwmicro.com/gwinfo. Google is a
service designed to index public websites, and provide a search
mechanism for finding content.
I'm sure you can deduce that a service designed to index public web
sites indexing a collection of public discussions would indeed result in
being able to locate your email address.
It is true that we could take some measure to obfuscate email addresses
in these public forums. But there are other services which subscribe to
our email lists for the sole purpose of archiving the content publicly
which also make email addresses available for public viewing and
consumption. For that reason, I never took the time to implement any
kind of obfuscation technology. I also felt the ability to contact an
author of a message through the archive interface outweighed the
possibility of having email addresses harvested for ill gotten gain. I
still feel that to be the case.
I hope that helps explain the rather benign debacle you've recently
encountered.
Aaron
On 7/16/2009 7:17 PM, C. Richcreek Enterprises wrote:
Hi Bill, I have been an ardent user of WindowEyes only, since VocalEyes
but today I find out that your info support list is listing my Email
Address all over on Google. This is a serious dis-service to all of the
members that ask or answer lister's questions on the Info list. I hope
that you all can find a much better way to not be doing that? All the
tech at my ISP, had to do was just put my email address into Google and
your Info list came right up complete with my email address? This is no
security, at all, for your clients, I have been very careful to always
read the privacy documents to where ever I create an account for
shopping, Software purchases etc. and it seems that it has been a
definite waist of time. To find out that my favorite company is freely
listing my email address all over the web is unconscionable. Have any of
you even thought about this problem? I should hope so. Thank you, Craig
B. Richcreek
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