On Wed, Jan 07, 2009 at 05:42:42PM +1100, John Beckett wrote: > > Chris Bannister wrote: > >> * Remove any email addresses (do not quote the email address of > >> the person to whom you are replying).
I did not write that. > > I don't understand this. If you can scan the body, you can > > scan the headers, or am I missing something? > > If a spammer subscribes to the list, then yes, they can use the headers > to harvest the email address of everyone who posts. However, our > messages also end up on web pages where there are no mail headers. > > By searching for old posts, we can see that all vim_use mail is archived > at: > groups.google.com > tech.groups.yahoo.com > www.nabble.com > markmail.org > www.mail-archive.com > article.gmane.org http://www.ii.com/internet/robots/procmail/qs/ notes: "Tip: At Gmane you can view the unmunged version of a message by appending /raw to the message's URL. This is discussed in the Gmane FAQ." Gmane FAQ: http://gmane.org/faq.php > It so happens that each of these archives uses some method to obscure > email addresses. However, next week, someone could decide that they Even the "from:" header? You could argue that obscuring the from header is a bad idea because there is then no chance of corresponding with that poster. For example, I would welcome further correspondence from anyone with something worthwhile to say, even if it was an old post in some archive somewhere. > Furthermore, there is good reason to believe that spammers pay to defeat > captcha on Google Groups and Yahoo, etc. As profitable avenues for > spammers dry up, who knows what they will do next? Perhaps they might > pay for a system that harvests all the obscured email addresses from > archived mailing lists. Couldn't be that hard to scan for jjj at example dot com or variants thereof. > Finally, I would recommend an application of common sense (this is not > aimed at Chris). When replying to a public mailing list, it would be > unwise to include anyone's home address and phone number. It's just I snip out sigs anyway and would probably snip out an address and phone number *but* I consider it *extremely* bad manners to edit someones message to my liking and making it look as though that is what they wrote. So, of course, I won't obfuscate anything anyone else wrote. -- Chris. ====== I contend that we are both atheists. I just believe in one fewer god than you do. When you understand why you dismiss all the other possible gods, you will understand why I dismiss yours. -- Stephen F Roberts --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message from the "vim_use" maillist. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
