On Tuesday 27 April 2010 21:32:07 Chuck Swiger wrote: > On Apr 27, 2010, at 1:00 PM, Drew White wrote: > > http://www.mavetju.org/mail/view_message.php?list=freebsd-questions&id=26 > > 14063 > > > > My email address is showing up in google from this thread, I get a lot of > > spam at this email address... Is there anything we can do about this? > > Nope, sorry. Posting to a mailing list which is archived at dozens (if not > hundreds) of mirrors means the address is public. > > > Perhaps turning off people's email address showing in these threads is > > possible.. Thank You - Trying to clean up. > > Some mailing lists have attempted to obfuscate email addresses. That seems > to be mostly futile, as spammers not only suck postings from lists > directly before some archive tries to obscure them on a webpage being > displayed, the spammers also use extensive dictionary attacks and will hit > email addresses which have never been published anywhere.
At least one mailing list I'm on obfuscates the addresses on the server so all messages would, for example, appear to come *from* freebsd- questi...@freebsd.org. -- Bruce Cran _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"