David Woolley-3 wrote: > > G4ILO wrote: >> Wondering why spam has started arriving at this email address, which I >> set up >> specifically to use for this reflector, I searched for it on Google. I >> found >> the address in an archive of the reflector on Google Groups >> (http://groups.google.com/group/elecraft-archive). Unfortunately, in this >> archive, all email addresses are in clear and therefore accessible to > > They are not in the clear. The tail end of the username is replaced by > "...". On the other hand, the obfuscation on qth.net is so trivial that > I'm sure that most spambots de-obfuscate it without any thought these > days. I believe that qth.net is big enough to be worth specific > targetting by spammers, although Google is, obviously, a prime target. > >
I have certainly found that if I do a google search on my email address the one (and usually only) place where it turns up is on the qth.net archives (this list and another there I subscribe to). Clearly there is deficiency in this area, despite them saying they are protected. As an aside, I am posting this via the Nabble web interface. I wonder if my real email address gets archived in the qth.net one? And secondly, does this message actually get to the email list, there have been suggestions that some of the Nabble ones don't...? My spam seems to have dropped to an all time low of one or two a day, but maybe I shouldn't say that in case the spammers hear... 73 Dave G3YMC -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Yet-another-Elecraft-archive-tp14630660p14636852.html Sent from the Elecraft mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Post to: Elecraft@mailman.qth.net You must be a subscriber to post to the list. Subscriber Info (Addr. Change, sub, unsub etc.): http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/subscribers.htm Elecraft web page: http://www.elecraft.com
