It could be useful if the listserver had an option to surpress the email addresses of the sender. This way, a poster's email couldn't be harvested. Mailing lists managed by Yahoogroups do this.
----- Original Message ---- From: "u2list0...@curt.com" <u2list0...@curt.com> To: U2 Users List <u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org> Sent: Tue, April 19, 2011 3:34:44 PM Subject: Re: [U2] Mailing List Hacked Having read and seen what people have said I understand now. My apologies to the group. I had no idea our actual email addresses showed up on Google searches. No wonder this happened. At 4/19/2011 01:11 PM, you wrote: >To my knowledge, the list hasn't been hacked, nor has anyone subscribed and >sent phishing attempts through the list. It is being mirrored/archived via >Nabble and a couple of others, I believe, which may be the source of the >email harvesting. > >Larry Hiscock >Moderator > > >-----Original Message----- >From: u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org >[mailto:u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of Robert Porter >Sent: Tuesday, April 19, 2011 5:28 AM >To: U2 Users List >Subject: Re: [U2] Mailing List Hacked > >I was about to mention that... his email address appears in 3+ dozen pages >in google. So unless there's some other evidence, I'm not worrying about the >list being hacked. > >Robert > > > >>> George Gallen <ggal...@wyanokegroup.com> 4/19/2011 7:26 AM >>> >not to mention that the list is on search engines as well.... > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org [mailto:u2-users- > > boun...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of Jeffrey Butera > > Sent: Tuesday, April 19, 2011 7:27 AM > > To: u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org > > Subject: Re: [U2] Mailing List Hacked > > > > On 04/19/2011 07:22 AM, u2list0...@curt.com wrote: > > > I just received a phishing attack addressed to my U2 Mailing list > > > email address. > > > > That doesn't mean the list was "hacked" (eg: found a way to scrape > > addresses from the outside). Anyone can join the list, harvest email > > from it and then use it for bad things. I've seen this before on other > > high-traffic lists I'm on. > > > > > > -- > > Jeffrey Butera > > Manager of ERP Systems > > Hampshire College > > 413-559-5556 > > > > _______________________________________________ > > U2-Users mailing list > > U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org > > http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users >_______________________________________________ >U2-Users mailing list >U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org >http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users >_______________________________________________ >U2-Users mailing list >U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org >http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users > >_______________________________________________ >U2-Users mailing list >U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org >http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users Curt Lashley 2803 North Boulevard Tampa, FL 33602 Cell: (813) 293-2878 or (800) 886-2878 Home: (813) 226-2878 or (800) 524-2878 Fax: (813) 229-2878 _______________________________________________ U2-Users mailing list U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users _______________________________________________ U2-Users mailing list U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users
