Ian, note that the MySQL mailing list is also forwarded to the mailing.database.myodbc Usenet group, as well as to several mailing list archiving websites. Spam robots and viruses have plenty of places from which to harvest your email address if you write to this list.
I personally receive some 2000 viruses and 300 spam emails per day to my email address. Best regards, Heikki Innobase Oy InnoDB - transactions, row level locking, and foreign keys for MySQL InnoDB Hot Backup - a hot backup tool for InnoDB which also backs up MyISAM tables http://www.innodb.com/order.php Order MySQL support from http://www.mysql.com/support/index.html ............. List: mysql Subject: [OT] Email addresses shown in archive at lists.mysql.com From: "Ian Gibbons" <mysql1 () fishnet ! co ! uk> Date: 2004-07-12 14:18:49 Message-ID: <40F2ABD9.17993.2491A560 () localhost> [Download message RAW] Dear list, After posting a question last week from an email address I only use for this list, I have already started to receive spam and virus reports. Looking at the archives at lists.mysql.com I notice that the from address is not shown, just the name. But... If someone else quotes your message in a reply ( which is considered best practice in all mailing list I have ever been a member of ) email addresses are displayed. Is there anyway that these addresses can be removed/ blanked from the archives? I understand that my address could have ( and is likely to have ) been harvested by a list member infected with a virus, but with the growing increase in spam shouldn't the archives be clean by default? Thoughts? I will be unsubscribing from the list and re-subsubscrbing with a new address shortly, so don't be surprised if direct replies are bounced... Regards Ian -- -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]
