begin quoting Joshua Penix as of Wed, Feb 09, 2005 at 12:04:18AM -0800: > Stewart Stremler wrote: > > >That explains why I'm suddenly getting spam to my list addresses. I > >am quite unhappy about this. > > Actually, it doesn't. All the web-searchable list archives have email > addresses munged out of them for this very reason. > > That said, it appears the "downloadable gzipped copy" of the archives > does *not* have munging in place. I searched Google for your email > address and there was only one hit - inside one of the gzipped LPSG > archives from last June.
When the spam first started showing up (within a couple of days after the change-over), I searched, and found several hits with google. None were in a gzipped file, but I don't recall if any were from the header or if all were from the body. In hindsight, I should have captured the search results. Failure to do so makes forensics difficult. > If that single hit is responsible for your spam, then sorry. I'll go > reconfigure the list software to turn off the downloadable archives > altogether - they're unnecessary as far as I can see. Hopefully that > will solve the problem. One hopes. And thanks. > But it's a public mailing list, it shouldn't be a total shocker if your > email address gets out. Nothing is stopping an enterprising spammer > from subscribing to our lists and letting the addresses flow in as > people post. It was the timing of the thing that was so annoying. A whitelist system is looking more and more appealing every day... > >-Stewart "About ready to start bouncing list-spam to the list" Stremler > > -Josh "Just as ready to hit the unsubscribe button next to your name" Penix You volunteering to be the recpient instead? ;-P Seriously, any sort of forwarding -- should the frustration level exceed a significant threshold* -- would first involve an unsubscribe. I only have a couple of forwards set up (left feedback to the contact addresses on a web-page, using a unique address, and got spam to that unique one-time only address, attempts to contact owner of page or domain failed, so, bounce!). -Stewart "I need a tuit to finish my complaint script" Stremler * Which it isn't as there's been a response and an attempted action. -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
