On Fri, 2009-02-27 at 10:03 -0800, David Lang wrote: > On Fri, 27 Feb 2009, John Thomas wrote: > > I know little, so please forgive if this is wrong. > > The following link seems to be crawled by Google and exposes our email > > addresses to spam harvesters. I wonder if it makes sense and is > > possible to not do this or obfuscate the addresses? > > http://cyrusimap.web.cmu.edu/archive/mailbox.php?mailbox=archive.info-cyrus > if you send mail to a public mailing list it can be harvested by spammers. Ugh, please no more obfustication than already [foolishly] exists. It does not work and defeats the very point of e-mail (facilitating communication). I'm posting this message as adam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, although I frequently use awilliam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx and awilliam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx as well. And posting these here in plain text unobfusticated will have no measurable effect on the amount of SPAM I receive. I've been using these addresses for years [a decade?] go ahead and google them; if someone is harvesting they've certainly picked them up already - and the amount of SPAM I receive is very manageable. ---- Cyrus Home Page: http://cyrusimap.web.cmu.edu/ Cyrus Wiki/FAQ: http://cyrusimap.web.cmu.edu/twiki List Archives/Info: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus/mailing-list.html
