Re: Spam alert

2002-12-03 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Thu, Nov 28, 2002 at 11:02:34AM +0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > A word of warning to all the gentle folk here. The archives to this > (and, I guess, other Debbian lists) are published at > http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2002/ > > This list is a wonderful source of em

Re: Spam alert

2002-11-29 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Thu, Nov 28, 2002 at 12:59:44PM +0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | I don't suggest that. Instead, they should munge email addresses. Sure. Put sed in place before the file is written : s/@/ AT /g s/\./ DOT /g Ok, so now the addresses are munged. They're also a royal pain for honest p

Re: Spam alert

2002-11-28 Thread Shyamal Prasad
"debian" == debian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: debian> Nobody in their right mind uses a working email address on debian> Usenet for a topic such as this. Gating a mailing-list to debian> usenet without mangling (or better, removing them) is debian> plain irresponsible. Hmmm.

Re: Spam alert

2002-11-27 Thread Mark L. Kahnt
On Thu, 2002-11-28 at 01:28, Paul Johnson wrote: > On Thu, Nov 28, 2002 at 12:59:44PM +0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I don't suggest that. Instead, they should munge email addresses. > > http://www.interhack.net/pubs/munging-harmful/ > > > Nobody in their right mind uses a working email addr

Re: Spam alert

2002-11-27 Thread Paul Johnson
On Thu, Nov 28, 2002 at 12:59:44PM +0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I don't suggest that. Instead, they should munge email addresses. http://www.interhack.net/pubs/munging-harmful/ > Nobody in their right mind uses a working email address on Usenet for a > topic such as this. Gating a mailing-li

Re: Spam alert

2002-11-27 Thread Mark L. Kahnt
On Wed, 2002-11-27 at 23:59, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On 27 Nov 2002, Mark L. Kahnt wrote: > > > > Please, no off-list mail at all at all. This address accepts mail only from >Debian lists. > > > > That is interesting, as I only have one particular type of additional > > email since partaking

Re: Spam alert

2002-11-27 Thread John Hasler
John Summerfield writes: > Nobody in their right mind uses a working email address on Usenet for a > topic such as this. I guess I'm not in my right mind, then. I've used my working email address on Usenet for nearly twenty years now. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood,

Re: Spam alert

2002-11-27 Thread debian
On 27 Nov 2002, Mark L. Kahnt wrote: > > Please, no off-list mail at all at all. This address accepts mail only from Debian >lists. > > That is interesting, as I only have one particular type of additional > email since partaking in this list: Nigerian 419 fraud email. That said, > blocking the

Re: Spam alert

2002-11-27 Thread Mark L. Kahnt
On Wed, 2002-11-27 at 22:02, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > A word of warning to all the gentle folk here. The archives to this > (and, I guess, other Debbian lists) are published at > http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2002/ > > This list is a wonderful source of email addresses for spammers. I have

Re: Spam alert

2002-11-27 Thread Paul Johnson
On Thu, Nov 28, 2002 at 11:02:34AM +0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > If you are unhappy at the idea of your email address being published in > plan view for every spammer to take and use, then I uege you to complain > to the person who runs this list, or failing that, to the postmaster at > the hos

Spam alert

2002-11-27 Thread debian
A word of warning to all the gentle folk here. The archives to this (and, I guess, other Debbian lists) are published at http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2002/ This list is a wonderful source of email addresses for spammers. I have posted just two letters before this to the list, and already I'