Hi, On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 9:46 AM, Peter Firmstone<[email protected]> wrote: > I noticed my email address being picked up by junk mailers, searched for it > on google and noticed it appears in the apache river dev archive, any way we > can exclude our mail addresses in the archives or replace all @ with "at" to > prevent robots harvesting our email addresses?
The policy of Apache has been to publish the email archives as-is, though you may want to contact [email protected] to discuss that. When you're doing open source, it's generally impossible to keep your email address secret. Just posting to a public mailing list publishes your address to the world, and obfuscating it in the list archive simply delays the inevitable. My email addresses have been publicly visible with no obfuscation on numerous web sites continuously for the past 14 years, but I only see a handful of spam messages per day. As far as I'm concerned, spam filtering is a solved problem and you can even get it for free from providers like gmail. BR, Jukka Zitting
