Hi Robert and Geoff,
On Wed, 25 Oct 2006 11:01:17 +0200, Robert Osfield
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Electronic spam is very very sad attribute of moden computing.
Spamming just seems to get worse faster than spam filters can get rid
of it. Spam I see that gets through tends to have subject lines
related to software developement, licensing, it almost seems like spam
is being personalised these days to try and get through. Its quite
simply disgusts me which every way I look att it.
Yes it's scary.
The OSG mailing list should hide email addresses on the archive, and
the list also rejects all messages from people that arn't subscribed,
so the list itself shouldn't be forwarding spam.
I think it could be that spam bots are getting our email addresses at the
OSG Mailing List Archive.
This link is the message I am replying to now, here you can see Geoff's
and my email in clear text.
http://openscenegraph.org/archiver/osg-users/2006-October/0923.html
Email clients tend to include sender emails when one is replying to a
message.
One solution is to let the mailing list system to parse the email body for
email addresses and delete or modify them(example, joakim**autosim*no).
Another solution is to deny anonymous access to the mailing list archive,
i.e you have to logon to be able to browse the archive. The disadvantage
of that will be that search bots (google etc.) won't find the archive
aswell. And I don't think that is what we want.
Other possibilities are that the spam bots are getting better at
hacking servers to get email address, or perhaps better are decoding
the mangling of email address posted on sites. Perhaps they are even
hacking servers that pass mail around the web. It does now only seem
to be time before spam eventually finds your email address and you are
flooded.
Are there are extra tricks we are missing?
Robert.
On 10/25/06, Geoff Michel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Of course it is spam but the only way to get the address used is to
extract
it from this mailing list, whether automatically or someone misusing my
address as a login to a dodgy site. The address is only used with this
mailing list. No suggestion that spam is being sent via OSG is meant or
implied.
Oh, and Spam is not a performance enhancing drug.
Geoff
----- Original Message -----
From: "Joakim Simonsson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "osg users" <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, October 24, 2006 11:53 PM
Subject: Re: [osg-users] Drilling Holes in Beams?
> On Wed, 25 Oct 2006 00:02:45 +0200, Geoff Michel
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>> NB Someone has used my email- only used for OSG stuff- to send me
>> details on a 'performance' enhancing drug. Dont do that.
>
> Sounds like spam to me :)
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