Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com content-class: urn:content-classes:message Subject: RE: Spammers watching this user forum Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2003 14:31:22 -0500 Message-ID: <03C99898510C8C47945B932907D99AAA02E887@E2KMEMMCS1.ftbco.ftn.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft Exchange V6.0.6375.0 From: "DePriest, Jason R." To: X-OriginalArrivalTime: 17 Jul 2003 19:31:22.0340 (UTC) FILETIME=[01160240:01C34C9A] X-DCC-FTBDCCD1-Metrics: dns1 1130; Body=0 Fuz1=0 Fuz2=0 Note-from-DJ: This may be spam Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by delorie.com id h6HJVXw24416 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 AT dessent DOT net] Sent: Thursday, July 17, 2003 2:28 PM To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT 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 -- 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/ -- 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/