On Tue, 1 Jul 2003, Scott Chapman wrote: > Email addresses (at least mine is) are exposed at the "reply to" button at > the bottom of the messages. The actual code: > <INPUT TYPE="HIDDEN" NAME="user" VALUE="sachapman"> <INPUT TYPE > ="HIDDEN" NAME="host" VALUE="aep.com"> <INPUT TYPE="HIDDEN" NAME="subject" > VALUE="Re: Background on SCO"> <INPUT TYPE="HIDDEN" NAME="msgid" VALUE > ="[EMAIL PROTECTED]"> Reply via email > to<br> <INPUT TYPE="SUBMIT" VALUE=" Scott Chapman "> > > I'm thinking that's "harvestable" with relatively little effort. > Interesting that a few weeks ago I started receiving spam at this email > address at the rate of about 1 per day. Now I try to be relatively careful > about where I intentionally give out my email address and this list is > about the only one that I've recently posted to. 1 spam per day is not a > big problem (yet) but it is greater than the amount I previously received > either at work or home. For whatever reason the archive at that site only > goes back to 5/31. I don't know whether that's just when they purged it or > when linux-390 was added. If it's the later, that corresponds reasonably > closely with when I started receiving the spam. > > Like I said, not a big problem for me yet, just my 2 cents.
I have written to them pointing out that my email is copyright according to Australian law, that they do not have my permission to reproduce my email and making it clear they may not do so if it gives people access to my email address. I offered no advice as to which list is concerned - I don't care which, all concern me. I also described the list as "private" as one has to be a member in order to post freely to it. I recommend others do similarly. -- Cheers John. Join the "Linux Support by Small Businesses" list at http://mail.computerdatasafe.com.au/mailman/listinfo/lssb
