Re: antispam

From: Ken Poulton (poulton@zonker.labs.agilent.com-DeleteThis.com)
Date: Wed Aug 22 2001 - 17:18:15 PDT


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From: Ken Poulton <poulton@zonker.labs.agilent.com-DeleteThis.com>
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To: wind_talk@opus.labs.agilent.com-DeleteThis.com
Subject: Re: antispam


> I have always suspected that the web archives of this list has made my
> personal e-mail address available. I went to great lengths to guard it,
> but now it's out. Any e-mail address on a web page is subject to ending
> up on a CDROM used by spammers. However, that doesn't explain why it
> took so long for the spam to show, so maybe that's not it...

The good news is that the spam (as far as I know) went to the list,
not directly to your address. But the archives remain an
address-harvesting risk.

Question: should I munge the addresses in the archive?
Something like converting
    poulton@labs.agilent.com-DeleteThis.com
to
    poulton@labs.agilent.com-DeleteThis.com

Send real discussion to the list, but send votes direct to
poulton@labs.agilent.com-DeleteThis.com, and hate mail to
poulton@labs.agilent.com.-DeleteThis.com

Ken

"For every human problem, there is a neat, simple solution; and it is
always wrong." -- H.L. Mencken



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