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RE: Spammers watching this user forum
- From: "DePriest, Jason R." <jrdepriest at ftb dot com>
- To: <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2003 14:31:22 -0500
- Subject: RE: Spammers watching this user forum
The archives already show email addresses slightly obfuscated by
replacing the '@' with 'at' and the '.' with 'dot' and adding spaces.
-Jason
-----Original Message-----
From: Brian Dessent [mailto:brian@dessent.net]
Sent: Thursday, July 17, 2003 2:28 PM
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: Spammers watching this user forum
Todd Bowden wrote:
>
> Just received an email from an email address that only could of
received
> my address from this user list.
>
> My address was only created a couple weeks ago for the sole purpose of
> emailing this user-list. Might there be a way to
> hide peoples email addresses and just use their alias names instead of
> publishing them on the user list thread?
Uh, it's called a public mailing list. You should never be surprised to
receive spam on an email address you use to post to a ML, that's just
how the world works. Use a throwaway account if it bothers you. I also
suggest SpamAssassin.
Brian
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