Hi,
Today I received the email below. I have not
way of knowing if the any of the spam I get is from having
an address visible through this list. Can people who
post frequently address this? Do you experience new
spam after posting here?
I suspect that although it is possible that
our addresses are being harvested here, other places
(<cough>myspace<cough>) are easier to harvest from and from
my end more clearly correleated with spam.
In general, I have thought that spammers are
lazy and they miss out on many posibilities, things
technically easy but a bit more work than normal.
This is sheer conjecture.
The list works well - I am hesitant to change
anything.
Anyone have an opinion?
veg, computer-go admin
---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Sun, 17 Jun 2007 19:30:55 -0400
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Question regarding archives and avoiding spam
Hi,
I recently subscribed to the computer-go mailing list, and I'd really like
to join some of the discussions, but I noticed that on the archives (
http://computer-go.org/pipermail/computer-go/) only simple email obfuscation
is used. For example "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" would appear as "johndoe at
yahoo.com".
I am afraid to post to the list, because this kind of obfuscation supposedly
makes it even easier for spammers to find my email address online. You
cannot search for the character @ on google, but if you search for "* at
*.com" you get millions of results. And more specifically if you perform the
following search: "site:http://computer-go.org/pipermail/computer-go/ * at
*.com" then you get a lot of the email addresses of people who post to the
computer go list. Also please see the following article on this subject:
http://typewriting.org/2006/06/19/Email_Obfuscation_Helps_Spammers/
Is it possible to remove email addresses from future archives or find a
better obfuscation scheme? Or is there some personal setting I can adjust
that hides my email address?
Best regards,
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