winehq mailing list archives being harvested by spammers

Duane Clark dclark at akamail.com
Thu Apr 24 12:46:05 CDT 2003


Dan Kegel wrote:
> ...
> Right, which is why I went on to say:
> 
> 
>>  * simply obscuring all email addresses in message headers or trailers
>>That last countermeasure is my favorite one, since it means that
>>Google will still have full access to the info in the list archive.
> 
> 

And I will just add that there have been a number of complaints to both 
the various lists and administrator email addresses recently, which make 
it clear that spammers are indeed currently harvesting email addresses 
off the wine archives. I agree that the archives really do need to 
obscure them.





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