Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com X-Authentication-Warning: slinky.cs.nyu.edu: pechtcha owned process doing -bs Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2003 15:08:14 -0400 (EDT) From: Igor Pechtchanski Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com To: "DePriest, Jason R." cc: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: RE: Spammers watching this user forum In-Reply-To: <03C99898510C8C47945B932907D99AAA02E887@E2KMEMMCS1.ftbco.ftn.com> Message-ID: Importance: Normal MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Yes, but not in the *body* of the message (so, your quoted message below shows the unobfuscated address for Brian Dessent, as well as for the Cygwin list). Furthermore, the archives at aren't the only archives of this mailing list, and different archives have different address munging policies. IOW, if you want to be spam-free, don't use an important address for posting on a public forum, or use a SPAM-killing tool. Igor On Thu, 17 Jul 2003, DePriest, Jason R. wrote: > The archives already show email addresses slightly obfuscated by > replacing the '@' with 'at' and the '.' with 'dot' and adding spaces. > > -Jason > > -----Original Message----- > From: Brian Dessent [mailto:brian@dessent.net] > Sent: Thursday, July 17, 2003 2:28 PM > To: cygwin@cygwin.com > Subject: Re: Spammers watching this user forum > > 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? > > Uh, it's called a public mailing list. You should never be surprised to > receive spam on an email address you use to post to a ML, that's just > how the world works. Use a throwaway account if it bothers you. I also > suggest SpamAssassin. > > Brian -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ pechtcha@cs.nyu.edu ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ igor@watson.ibm.com |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D. '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! "I have since come to realize that being between your mentor and his route to the bathroom is a major career booster." -- Patrick Naughton -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/