Timothy- Thursday, June 30, 2005, 4:16:37 PM, you wrote:
TM> I am not thrilled to hear that. I presumed that my email address TM> would be relatively safe on this list, because it is open to TM> subscribers only. If I had known otherwise, I would have subscribed TM> with a disposable email address. This one is not particularly TM> disposable. I can say that I've never received a spam email that I can attribute to this list. I used to be *very* careful about not putting my email address on postings to any list. I still am on some lists. But several of my subscribed listservs are archived on gmane and, of course, indexed by Google and they always have at least a first pass at hiding email addresses. Nothing's perfect. There are other problems with our listserv software, but the obfuscation of email addresses is not one of those. I extract the email addresses from this list through Google screenscraping in one of my plugins. It's not hard to do. I'm sure there's spammer software out there to harvest them. TM> I doubt that a spammer would take the trouble to subscribe to a TM> relatively small list like this. On the other hand, a spammer could TM> probably figure out how to harvest email addresses from lists TM> archived on Google. TM> Is it really essential to archive the list on Google? Google does this by itself. It's not a runrev decision. -- -Mark Wieder [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list [email protected] Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
