Hi, On Thursday, June 05, 2008 at 14:47:53, John wrote:
On Thursday 05 June 2008 14:27:38 Henne Vogelsang wrote:
On Thursday, June 05, 2008 at 12:32:28, John wrote:
My biggets concern though is that there are obviously email address collection bots / people kicking about on lists and even changing reply to etc doesn't defeat them as the originators email address is still buried in the source.
Setting an Reply-To is not obfuscating any other address in the mail so i dont know how you would defeat address collection with this.
That is exactly what I have just said. The originators email address is always in the emails source code.
Why isn't it all stripped out by the lists server?
What exactly do you mean with "all"?
If the server took the title, message and attachments and then repackaged them in a mail sent by itself and with "reply to" also set to itself the originators email address would not be in the email source. The tracking information wouldn't be either.
This would mean a complete anonymus mailinglist. This is certainly an option, but not a very good one i think. Because it takes out the social part of this excercise completely. In general obfuscation cant be the answer to things like SPAM. This is way to highlevel.
You might wonder why I would suggest removing the tracking information too. I do not think it would be wise to elaborate on that on this or any other list. It can be seriously abused. It is sometimes too.
You are overestimating the amount of work spammers are willing to put into collecting 1300 addresses :) Henne -- Henne Vogelsang, openSUSE. Everybody has a plan, until they get hit. - Mike Tyson -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org