asudell wrote:
Might it perhaps make sense to scrub or obsucure email
addresses from the author tags?
There was an article on slashdot mentioning a study about
how spammers get the addresses. Basically scraping web
pages mailto links and strings looking like email addresses
seems to be the most use
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> On Fri, 27 Jun 2003, Andrew C. Oliver wrote:
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> > Date: Fri, 27 Jun 2003 11:26:04 -0400
> > From: Andrew C. Oliver <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Reply-To: Jakarta General List
> > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Jakarta General List
> > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Proposal:
> Jakarta should protect c
Unfortunately only someone who doesn't use Outlook can really sue M$. You
see the license agreement says you hold them harmless. Now a non-party to
the license agreement can obviously sue them (I think).
-Andy
On 6/27/03 1:58 PM, "Santiago Gala" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Andrew C. Oliver es
Andrew C. Oliver escribió:
I'd be all of this if it would make a difference, unfortunately you're
barking up the wrong tree. I'm getting that virus/attachment to every email
address I have just about. I think it looks locally (user address book,
etc). Thus I'm against this on the principal that
> Craig (just cleaned out about 300 of these from this morning's mail)
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I feel your pain brother McClanahan, I feel your pain.
I wish all of the dimwits who write the virus scanners would make it smart
enough not to reply to the reply-to in the event of viruses which forge the
reply-to...Duh.
On Fri, 27 Jun 2003, Andrew C. Oliver wrote:
> Date: Fri, 27 Jun 2003 11:26:04 -0400
> From: Andrew C. Oliver <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Reply-To: Jakarta General List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: Jakarta General List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: Re: Proposal: Jakarta should protect community email ad
> I'd be all of this if it would make a difference, unfortunately you're
> barking up the wrong tree.
You gotta start somewhere. The fact that "others are doing it wrong" is
not an excuse to do the wrong thing yourself (see your own argument about
Outlook - you can't make everyone in the world to
I'd be all of this if it would make a difference, unfortunately you're
barking up the wrong tree. I'm getting that virus/attachment to every email
address I have just about. I think it looks locally (user address book,
etc). Thus I'm against this on the principal that its a big waste of time.
Sp
>> Jakarta website has a very unfortunate and harmful feature - a full
>> mbox archive at
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>>http://jakarta.apache.org/mail/
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>> This is an invitation to spammers and people who spread viruses. And
>> all those types are gladly taking advantage of it. Here is a few
>> facts:
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> -1.
> -Original Message-
> From: Tetsuya Kitahata [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: 27 June 2003 12:20
> To: Jakarta General List
> Subject: Re: Proposal: Jakarta should protect community email
> addresses
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>
> On Fri, 27 Jun 2003 11:29:23 +0100
> (Subject: RE: Proposal: Jakarta should p
On Fri, 27 Jun 2003 11:29:23 +0100
(Subject: RE: Proposal: Jakarta should protect community email addresses)
"BAZLEY, Sebastian" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Would it be possible to mangle/remove the e-mail addresses before publishing
> the postings?
> This would eventually fix the mirrors.
Tech
Hello,
The general solution currently in vogue is to obscure the vital part of the
e-mail address that contains the domain information on all pieces of
information that are potentially in the public domain (and therefore can be
harvested by spiders), such as web-pages that host the list.
Therefor
Would it be possible to mangle/remove the e-mail addresses before publishing
the postings?
This would eventually fix the mirrors.
However, unless the mailing list software can also be persuaded to hide the
originators e-mail addresses (might be difficult?), it would not protect
against others who
tetsuya 2003/06/27 00:16:13
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