Mike Burger wrote: > The second link definitely gets you to, what appear to be, the raw list > archive files.
I did not see any "raw list archives" at this moment. But I did see the mail address in the mail archives here. This one for example. http://spamassassin.apache.org/mail/users/200503 > In addition, the actual "archives", that are viewable to the world, show > the senders' email addresses. Yes, but so does the mailing list. Anyone can subscribe to the mailing list. And mailing lists that provide anonymity have been around before but usually they have their own set of really bad problems. Basically web forums today are the anonymous media today. There can be no illusion that your mail address is secret after posting to a public mailing list. So any spammer could get it from there directly by subscribing regardless of how it was handled in mail archives. I think obfuscating addresses is just closing the barn door after the animals have already escaped. It just frustrates you and annoys the pig.[1] But even mailing addresses only known by friends will get leaked out because a friend will sign you up for an email greeting card or some other such frivolous thing and get you on a spammer's list. However I think the true leak is web pages. I have seen studies showing that between one to four weeks after an email address shows up on a web site that it will start collecting spam. And almost all mailings lists are gateway'd to web pages somewhere on the 'net these days. When I web search for my email address it scary how many hits come back. I have old addresses from the late 1980's that are still found by web searches. Yet I still get very little spam to my mailbox. RBLs, greylisting, virus filtering, spamassassin. Sad that those are needed. But that is the way of things. Fortunately they are very effective. Bob [1] Let's see how long the OT followup thread goes about that analogy. :-)
