On Thursday 05 Jul 2007, James Wolfe wrote:
Spam is avoidable if care is taken
Everyone gets spam, sooner or later.
Until CompSci grads stop writing spam-ware.
and I see no particular reason that my
email address should be put in the outgoing emails.
In the particular case of the this
Spam is avoidable if care is taken
Right, but the problem is when taking care is more trouble than spam itself.
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I have a custom address which only receives mail for CF-Talk. I have shared
this address with no one and have not used it in any location other than on the
CF-Talk forum.
I have, as of yesterday, begun receiving spam on that address (3 messages thus
far).
Without accusing Michael of selling
On 7/5/07, James Wolfe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Its right out there for any bot to harvest.
Since that is the case, is there anything we can do to obscure email
addresses in replies so that this will not happen again?
It should be simple enough to write a regex that will remove the domain
Its right out there for any bot to harvest.
Since that is the case, is there anything we can do to obscure email addresses
in replies so that this will not happen again?
It should be simple enough to write a regex that will remove the domain from
all email addresses listed in this reply
CF-Talk address
I have a custom address which only receives mail for CF-Talk. I have shared
this address with no one and have not used it in any location other than on
the CF-Talk forum.
I have, as of yesterday, begun receiving spam on that address (3 messages
thus far).
Without accusing Michael
On Thursday 05 Jul 2007, James Wolfe wrote:
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Someone doesn't know how to quote correctly:
http://www.google.com/search?hl=enq=james-cftalk%40goqs.combtnG=Search
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From: Crow T. Robot [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: 05 July 2007 14:58
To: CF-Talk
Subject: Re: Spam to my CF-Talk address
I can assure you MikeD isn't selling our addresses. I think what is
happening is that even though the addresses are taken out of the web archive
I can assure you MikeD isn't selling our addresses. I think what is
happening is that even though the addresses are taken out of the web archive
postings, people (me included) forget sometimes to take the poster's address
out of their reply. Then the address ends up in the archives, ready for
I've traded a few emails with Michael regarding this topic.
All you have to do is Google your email address and you'll see that messages
to this group are publicly viewable online. The direct sender's email
address is stripped, but any message which was replied to and now a part of
the message
Yeah i second the google... They are amazing at the spam filtering.
On 7/5/07, Casey Dougall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 7/5/07, James Wolfe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Its right out there for any bot to harvest.
Since that is the case, is there anything we can do to obscure email
I have shared this address with no one
Wrong: we all have your address in our PC, and if only ONE of us has
been infected by
some worm collecting addresses for spamer, then you will get spam. As
easy as this.
Nothing you can dou about it, except use a new address every day ;-/
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werd. gmail is free, and it stops 99.56789% of my spam. besides, spam is a
way of life. get used to it. it's like trying to fight junk (snail) mail,
it's a losing battle.
On 7/5/07, Casey Dougall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 7/5/07, James Wolfe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Its right out
http://www.google.com/search?source=ighl=enq=james-cftalk%40goqs.combtnG=Google+Search
Its right out there for any bot to harvest.
On 7/5/07, James Wolfe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I have a custom address which only receives mail for CF-Talk. I have shared
this address with no one and have not
While I am aware that spam is a way of life on the internet and I know that I
have access to all of your email addresses and you therefore have access to
mine, I do not need to approve of either one of those things.
Spam is avoidable if care is taken and I see no particular reason that my email
On 7/5/07, Claude Schneegans [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I have shared this address with no one
Wrong: we all have your address in our PC, and if only ONE of us has
been infected by
It doesn't even take infection. I bot can 'scribe too, ya know? They're
sneaky smart, probably spam AI is
On 7/5/07, James Wolfe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I have a custom address which only receives mail for CF-Talk. I have shared
this address with no one and have not used it in any location other than on
the CF-Talk forum.
You've shared your email address with no-one? I beg to differ.
You've
BTW, here's my take on the matter.
Don't want spam? Don't use email. Or use a whitelist
challenge/response system.
I'm a lot less concerned about spam since I switched to google hosted
email. Their spam filters work very well.
Rick
On 7/5/07, James Wolfe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
While I am aware that spam is a way of life on the internet and I know
that I have access to all of your email addresses and you
This is a forum, if you want to respond to me, you can respond directly in
the forum. If you need to contact me
While I am aware that spam is a way of life on the internet
and I know that I have access to all of your email addresses
and you therefore have access to mine, I do not need to
approve of either one of those things.
If you continue to participate in a mailing list, you are giving tacit
It does mean that someone else would have to do some work, however. Are you
willing to pay for that work, however easy or insignificant it may seem to
you?
I'd be willing to contribute time to help fix it. Does that count?
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On 7/5/07, James W wrote:
It does mean that someone else would have to do some work, however. Are
you
willing to pay for that work, however easy or insignificant it may seem
to
you?
I'd be willing to contribute time to help fix it. Does that count?
Heck, post the relevant code on-list,
1. I would never sell or give away the email addresses from any of the
resources I run. Adobe is interested in sending out a mass mailing to all
subscribers and I told them that I would like to ask everyone to opt in/out
before I even consider and then we would do it through a bonded third
James Wolfe wrote:
This is a forum, if you want to respond to me, you can respond directly
in the forum.
This is not a forum, this is a mailinglist.
Jochem
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I'd be willing to contribute time to help fix it. Does that count?
I don't know, since I don't administer the list. It will presumably still
require Mike to spend some of his time, so frankly it very well may not
count. It may also result in a suboptimal value; the easiest way to solve
the
I'd be more than happy for people to help out and plugging in components to
do a job is rather easy with the system I built. I'll even post up my
cleanbody component so people can see how I clean posts and can add in their
own ideas and code. I'm great at regular expressions but there are people
It's both. The web based archives work in every way as a forum that is
married to a mailing list. Anyone who wants can subscribe to the archives
only and never get any mail.
On 7/5/07, Jochem van Dieten [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
James Wolfe wrote:
This is a forum, if you want to respond to me,
On 7/5/07, James Wolfe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
It does mean that someone else would have to do some work, however. Are you
willing to pay for that work, however easy or insignificant it may seem to
you?
I'd be willing to contribute time to help fix it. Does that count?
It's not broke. Not
On 7/5/07, Rick Root [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 7/5/07, James Wolfe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
It does mean that someone else would have to do some work, however. Are you
willing to pay for that work, however easy or insignificant it may seem to
you?
I'd be willing to contribute time to
If you want to keep this email for houseoffusion mail only, just set
a filter or whitelist/blacklist to delete mail to that email address
except if it comes from 64.118.74.249 .
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From: Al Musella, DPM [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, July 05, 2007 9:52 PM
To: CF-Talk
Subject: Re: Spam to my CF-Talk address - easy fix
If you want to keep this email for houseoffusion mail only, just set a
filter or whitelist/blacklist to delete mail to that email address except
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