----- Original Message ---- > From: Jukka Zitting <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Sent: Tuesday, June 16, 2009 6:13:33 AM > Subject: Re: Junk Mail > > Hi, > > On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 9:46 AM, Peter Firmstonewrote: > > 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. >
Indeed. I never use my address for email lists, but instead use aliases. That way if I need to get rid of one I just delete it, make a different one, and move on. From mailing lists I hardly ever get spam, but the biggest culprits seem to be sites require the email addresses to read articles and possibly some when I purchase things online. Even for those I use an alias. Yahoo, for 20.00 a year, gives me email aliases and unlimited email storage. Works well for online things...just have to be sure that when you setup your aliases they don't have [email protected] because the robots will take the name- part and pick out your email address and use that. Wade ================== Wade Chandler, CCE Software Engineer and Developer Certified Forensic Computer Examiner NetBeans Dream Team Member and Contributor http://www.certified-computer-examiner.com http://wiki.netbeans.org/wiki/view/NetBeansDreamTeam http://www.netbeans.org
