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From:	"guenter strubinsky" <strubinsky AT acm DOT org>
To:	<cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>, "'Todd Bowden'" <todd AT stembol DOT com>
Subject:	RE: Spammers watching this user forum
Date:	Thu, 17 Jul 2003 15:10:33 -0500
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http://www.monkeys.com/wpoison/

spammers please check the following link out; lots of delicious email
addresses: http://www.monkeys.com/wpoison/


> -----Original Message-----
> From: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com [mailto:cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com] On Behalf
> Of Elfyn McBratney
> Sent: Thursday, 17 July, 2003 14:52
> To: Todd Bowden
> Cc: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
> Subject: Re: Spammers watching this user forum
> 
> On Thu, 17 Jul 2003, Todd Bowden wrote:
> 
> > Just received an email from an email address that only could of received
> > my address from this user list.
> >
> > My address was only created a couple weeks ago for the sole purpose of
> > emailing this user-list.  Might there be a way to
> > hide peoples email addresses and just use their alias names instead of
> > publishing them on the user list thread?
> 
> Unfortunately Todd sourceware^H^H^H^Hs.redhat.com is a haven for spam e-
> mail
> harvesters. We do munge addresses in the e-mail header in the archives but
> in
> reality all a spammer needs to do is subscribe to the list. There's not
> much we
> can do about it, especially when taking the mere number of subscribers
> into
> account.
> 
> I must mention that Cygwin + SpamAssassin == 99.9% spam free. :-)
> 
> Elfyn
> 
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