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Subject: RE: Spammers watching this user forum
Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2003 14:31:22 -0500
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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

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