On 30 Dec 1999, Oleg Goldshmidt wrote:
> > great, now this address appears in the archives and he'll start getting
> > spammed.
>
> Ira, with all due respect...
>
> I certainly hope that *I* don't have to think whether or not I can put
> an email address in the body of a message. And who would want to spam
> linux-il-owner rather than linux-il?
you think spammers THINK before they spam you? I get spam in German,
Chinese, Thai and Turkish... they harvest mailto: links for the hell of
it. I'm getting close to dumping my 5-YO main Email address altogether
because of it :-(
> > actually also Michael Shiloh's address is in the body.
>
> Yes, that's what most mail programs do when a message is cited. This
> message contains yours.
yes, I find that VERY annoying, as you can see, pine doesn't do it.
>
> Other email addresses can be found in the headers.
the MHONARC on plasma-gate is censoring them but not the one in the
body. it also does it w/o giving you a way to contact the person in a
way that is spammer proof, like Egroups does (for addresses in the
header or in the body).
like I said, maybe it's time to get a better list archive site.
> I must say that I don't see spam addressed to the email address that
> is in my .signature, even though this is the address I subscribe to
> mailing lists. Practically all the spam I get I get through my
> (dormant) TAU email addresses, with a minor Netvision component.
it may take a few months, but at some point it happens. through 3 tiers
of spam filters, I'm still getting 5-6 spams a day, and I am not amused.
--
Ira Abramov ; whois:IA58 ; www.scso.com ; all around Linux enthusiast
linux: because a PC is a terrible thing to waste
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