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Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2003 12:28:15 -0700
From: Brian Dessent <brian AT dessent DOT net>
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Subject: Re: Spammers watching this user forum
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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

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