Hi! I was wondering, why on the SuSE Lists archives people can find our EXACT e-mail adress??? A simple scan of the messages on that page will return our real e-mail addresses - there's only one step away from "enlarge your penis" or "rich nigerians" e-mails... Please, SuSE people, can you do something to transform our e-mail addresses on the archives (remove them, if you cannot transform them into, for instance, suse at ploiesti dot rdsnet dot ro - instead of showing suse@ploiesti.rdsnet.ro) Best regards, Radu Voicu
Radu Voicu wrote:
Please, SuSE people, can you do something to transform our e-mail addresses on the archives (remove them, if you cannot transform them into, for instance, suse at ploiesti dot rdsnet dot ro - instead of showing suse@ploiesti.rdsnet.ro)
Translation won't really help. Since so many ppl 'crypt' their e-mail address in such a way, spam-bots are clever enough to convert the addresses back. One way is removing them. But: you'll lose a way to contact ppl. If you found some useful informations and can't reach the autor for some questions because of such 'filters' you really start to dislike them. Besides from that, there so many ways to 'crawl' your email address. And: who said that a spammer can't subscribe to the list and just grep the mailaddresses by just reciving all the mails? ;) just my 2 cent (and no, i don't like penis spam) Sven
So... we have to sit back and see what's happening? :) Sven 'Darkman' Michels wrote:
Radu Voicu wrote:
Please, SuSE people, can you do something to transform our e-mail addresses on the archives (remove them, if you cannot transform them into, for instance, suse at ploiesti dot rdsnet dot ro - instead of showing suse@ploiesti.rdsnet.ro)
Translation won't really help. Since so many ppl 'crypt' their e-mail address in such a way, spam-bots are clever enough to convert the addresses back. One way is removing them. But: you'll lose a way to contact ppl. If you found some useful informations and can't reach the autor for some questions because of such 'filters' you really start to dislike them. Besides from that, there so many ways to 'crawl' your email address. And: who said that a spammer can't subscribe to the list and just grep the mailaddresses by just reciving all the mails? ;)
just my 2 cent (and no, i don't like penis spam)
Sven
Radu Voicu wrote:
So... we have to sit back and see what's happening? :)
on the clientside try mozillas spamcontrol, for me it really works fine. if you have your own mailserver use spamassassin. you are not completely defenseless against spam :-) best regards reto
On Friday 12 Sep 2003 17:48, Robert Davies wrote:
On Friday 12 Sep 2003 16:11, Radu Voicu wrote:
So... we have to sit back and see what's happening? :)
No, you install an anti-spam system.
Hey, someone's got a borked censorship system, maybe anti-spam triggered it?
Someone needs to go see some modern Disney films or something (for
profanity)!
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Please don't cross-post between closed lists. * Radu Voicu (suse@ploiesti.rdsnet.ro) [030912 07:36]:
I was wondering, why on the SuSE Lists archives people can find our EXACT e-mail adress??? A simple scan of the messages on that page will return our real e-mail addresses - there's only one step away from "enlarge your penis" or "rich nigerians" e-mails...
The html part, which generate, is obfuscated (e.g., 'suse at ploiesti.rdsnet.ro'). I'd rather not get into editing people's posts in order to obfuscate the addresses in the mail. It's your responsibility to protect your email address (which you are apparently doing) and, because we only use the sender from for authentication, you can set the address in the from header to whatever you want. In other words, your actually subscriptions address is only shown to other subscribers if you decide to reveal it. Please send followup to me, not the list. -- -ckm
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