winehq mailing list archives being harvested by spammers
Shachar Shemesh
wine-devel at shemesh.biz
Thu Apr 24 13:33:28 CDT 2003
Brian Vincent (C) wrote:
>>executive summary: "please obscure the email addresses in the
>>winehq mailing list archives, I'm drowning in spam"!
>>
>>
>
>FWIW, Zack Brown and I began obscuring all the email address
>in the Wine Traffic / Kernel Traffic newsletters a while ago.
>They used to be embedded in the XML, HTML and various pages
>referenced on the site. However, any email sent to wine-devel
>before mid October will show up in the mailing list stats
>in the XML pages on both WineHQ and Wine Traffic (Zack's site).
>
>---------------
>Brian Vincent
>Copper Mountain Telecom
>vincentb at coppercolorado.com
>
>
>
I switched emails about a month ago. Let's see how long it takes for the
new email to be harvested. So far, the only email that got spammed was
the old one (I think. Due to my one email per activity rule, I get each
spam multiple times. I don't bother checking each and every one which
email it was sent to).
Let's not forget that they can also harvest emails by subscribing to the
list direct.
Shachar
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