Re: [PLUG] SPAM from being a list member/poster

[Kevin Brosius <kbrosius@kns.com>]

gabriel rosenkoetter wrote:
> 
> On Mon, Dec 09, 2002 at 05:42:03PM -0500, Paul wrote:
> > Timothy Lee Young wrote:
> > >I know SPAMers can use e-mail addresses on internet-searchable list
> > >archives, of which I believe this is one.
> 
> PLUG has no archives right now, much less Internet-searchable ones.

Really?  Odd.  The first hit on google for my name and PLUG is
http://lists.nothinbut.net/mailman/pubarchive/plug/2002-March/thread.html

And yes, the page does resolve.

> Whether or not to mask the email addresses in the archive has come
> up before. I don't recall the resolution because I don't, personally,
> care, as my email address is far too widespread on web pages by
> way of NetBSD mailing lists and Bugtraq for any PLUG archive to
> make a difference.
> 
> If you're worried about spammers finding your email address by
> performing a web search, it's quite simple to see if it's out there.
> Perform a web search on your email address.
> 
> --
> gabriel rosenkoetter
> gr@eclipsed.net

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