> On Fri, 31 Aug 2001, Jean-Pierre Coulon wrote:
>
> >
> > So I think the culprit is clear now. Then should we disguise our
> > addresses like [EMAIL PROTECTED] on the Archive site ? Would
> > this be unethical, or irritate potential senders ? Otherwise is anybody aware
> > of a potential revenge ?
At least for us who already have been on the page for some
time, it's too late to change. Also, I guess most spam software
is more smart about the "nospam" tricks than the average user
of the archive who might want to contact the author.
One important rule about spam is that you should never send
an answer, since that confirms that the email adress is
actively used. I heard they sometimes use "web bugs",
- including an image that's just a white pixel in the html
code, if the image is downloaded from their server, they know
the email adress was used.
> As you see there is a second possibility: spammers subscribe to the
> list and take the from: lines for spamming. Are you sure that all
> who got the junk are editors? Could it be that it hit those people
> active in the newgroup? In my opinion, a policy change is not necessary.
> However, the newsgroup administrator may have occasionally a look into
> the subscribers' list and check for obvious intruders.
You could get the adresses from the archive, there's no need to
subscribe.
> As I mentioned in an earlier message, other newgroups also got
> the same problems. Its somewhat bothering, but the time effort to press
> the 'd' key is not that big.
Agreed! I'm afraid we have to live with it.
/Mats
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