Re: Spam

From: James Jennings (jennings@megaseattle.com)
Date: Sun Jan 04 2004 - 23:49:20 PST


Since we're talking about spam...

I have heard that one place spammers get their addresses is by
running programs that "harvest" the addresses from random web pages.
Since I get a *lot* of spam (getting close to 5 meg a week) I tried
to google my own e-mail address. The only hits are in the archives
for this mailing list.

Could that be changed? Some mailing list software disguises addresses
in the archives by, say, replacing the "@" with " AT ". Others only
allow you to read the archives by entering an easily discovered
(except by harvesters) password.

Just a thought.

James
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