On Sat, Oct 09, 2004 at 11:25:11PM +0200, Santiago Vila wrote: > > First use of email address: 2004-10-06 18:56 (UTC) > > First spam received at email address: 2004-10-09 17:12 (UTC) > > > > If you've been wondering how long it takes for an email address to > > propagate from the Debian list archives to spammers, here's one > > data point: less than 71 hours. > > You know, this is part of our "privacy policy" for the mailing lists: > "We do not sell email addresses, we give them for free" > This is of course not written anywhere but it's sadly true.
<mode id="joke" state="on"> First mention of the word SPAM: 9 Oct 2004 20:38:35 +0200 First post from Santiago Vila : 9 Oct 2004 23:25:11 +0200 If you were wondering how long it would take for him to get the debate back on list... :) </mode> Santiago has a bit of rationale... Some obfuscation in the list archives might be needed at some point, at least until SPF is widely deployed (thanks to every copr/entity/... for making SenderID a no-no). J -- Jesus Climent info:www.pumuki.org Unix SysAdm|Linux User #66350|Debian Developer|2.4.27|Helsinki Finland GPG: 1024D/86946D69 BB64 2339 1CAA 7064 E429 7E18 66FC 1D7F 8694 6D69 It's called a change-over. The movie goes on and nobody knows the difference. --Narrator (Fight club)