On Thursday 05 June 2008 21:05:50 Evens Garde wrote:
John Andersen wrote:
On Thu, Jun 5, 2008 at 12:25 PM, Carlos E. R.
<robin.listas@telefonica.net> wrote:
I believe Novell was preparing a joint platform offering forum and news access, but I don't know if they are working yet. Maybe the access there is anonymous, at least no email address published, and the OP would be happier?
I simply can't be bothered to read forums, and will be gone when this list is shutdown in favor of a forum. (That may have some of you demanding a forum immediately). Just my opinion, but I abhor them.
Same here.
Forums are the most inefficient method of communicating. They are an idea whose time has never come.
The only reason they seem to proliferate, it seems, is because on many sites with not much content, web-masters seem to need forums to justify their own existence.
While you may feel it is a valid concern that there are address harvesting bots subscribed to this list, I have to point out that this IS the Internet, and you WILL get you email address harvested sooner or later if you EVER post with it ANYWHERE.
It seems to me that any attempt to hide the email address becomes very similar to a "security by obscurity" situation, and we all know how well that works.
I have reason to believe that some of the address harvesting is actually the result of "inside jobs" involving packet sniffers/address-harvesters within the commercial routing infrastructure.
What leads me to this conclusion?
When a .mil e-mail address, which I *NEVER* used to send mail to anyone started receiving over 200 spam messages per day ... that didn't happen by accident. Somehow, that address was sniffed out of e-mail which was sent to me, and the only email which I received on that account came from other .mil addresses.
As a note to all I am not complaining about the list just pointing out that something could and I feel should be done about it. I'm not too keen on forums either. Having said that though I do feel that some peoples attitude to the subject is a little bit twisted. I manage too but what's the point in having to bother when the problem needn't exist. Just a little more work for the mail server and not much at that. On sniffing it certainly does go on but I have no idea how. Some one suggested that I should use a nice safe library . I mostly use the internet as a library. Say I have found a russian site for instance and downloaded an ebook. I then start getting russian spam. It's happened and in other countries too and in no case have I sent an email. I only mentioned Russia because I have never ever sent an email there and no way can I speak the language. John -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org