Re: email address on google through this link
On Apr 27, 2010, at 1:00 PM, Drew White wrote: http://www.mavetju.org/mail/view_message.php?list=freebsd-questionsid=2614063 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. Using better anti-spam methods (including training your junk mail filter(s) on ham vs spam) is doable, whereas hiding email addresses tends to not work. Regards, -- -Chuck ___ 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
Re: email address on google through this link
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-questionsid=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
Re: email address on google through this link
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. Which make it quite annoying when you want to reply privately to someone. ___ 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
Re: email address on google through this link
On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 09:56:50PM +0100, Bruce Cran wrote: 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. As long as you have some way to respond to an individual person rather than the whole list, this problem will exist -- because if people on the list can get your email address, they can also make those email addresses public (or abuse them, if they happen to be the types of people who join mailing lists just to harvest email addresses). -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] pgp6utQraAcVr.pgp Description: PGP signature
