Thread: Re: E-mail harvesting on PG lists?
> > This is truly worrisome... I wonder if spammers today are > basically > > subscribing to mailing lists so that they receive the > e-mails (seems > > like a very obvious trick), or if they're moving to the > next level of > > "decrypting" the "encrypted / anti-spam" form of e-mail > addresses (the > > way they're displayed on the mailing list web site) > > Our email lists are mirrored onto web sites like Google, so I > am thinking they got it that way. archives.postgresql.org properly "hides" the addresses. However, they are mirrored to Usenet News, where anybody can pick them up. Much easier that way, I bet that's what most use. > > Any comments? If it is the first option above, then it feels like > > by definition there is absolutely nothing that can be done, now or > > ever :-( > > Yes, I came to that conclusion long ago. That's the bottom line, though. Spamfilters help, but only part of the way. //Magnus
Magnus Hagander wrote: > archives.postgresql.org properly "hides" the addresses. If you think that spammers are unable to do s/ (at) /@/ you're living in a dream world.
Carlos Moreno wrote: > Any comments? If it is the first option above, then it feels like > by definition there is absolutely nothing that can be done, now or > ever :-( I got an IMAP account with BurntMail.com. I belong to a dozen mailing lists, and haven't received any spam since getting the email account. They obviously do aggressive spam filtering, but as far as I know I'm getting all the email I should. An option to consider... -- Guy Rouillier
On 1/8/06, Guy Rouillier <guyr@masergy.com> wrote: > Carlos Moreno wrote: > > > Any comments? If it is the first option above, then it feels like > > by definition there is absolutely nothing that can be done, now or > > ever :-( > > I got an IMAP account with BurntMail.com. I belong to a dozen mailing > lists, and haven't received any spam since getting the email account. > They obviously do aggressive spam filtering, but as far as I know I'm > getting all the email I should. An option to consider... I use Gmail which promises I will never run out of room, can tag messages and bypass the inbox, and has a very good spam filter. Searching is obviously pretty good too. I noticed I got about 5 - 10 spam emails within MINUTES of each post before I switched to Gmail, I'm sure I still do, I just don't see them.
On Sun, Jan 08, 2006 at 12:34:25AM +0100, Peter Eisentraut wrote: > Magnus Hagander wrote: > > archives.postgresql.org properly "hides" the addresses. > > If you think that spammers are unable to do s/ (at) /@/ you're living in > a dream world. Agreed. I'd honesly rather we drop that nonsense so I can at least cut and paste email addresses when needed. -- Jim C. Nasby, Sr. Engineering Consultant jnasby@pervasive.com Pervasive Software http://pervasive.com work: 512-231-6117 vcard: http://jim.nasby.net/pervasive.vcf cell: 512-569-9461
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 >> If you think that spammers are unable to do s/ (at) /@/ you're living in >> a dream world. > Agreed. I'd honesly rather we drop that nonsense so I can at least cut > and paste email addresses when needed. I'd rather not. While obfuscation is not a surefire solution, it does help. Quite a bit, as spammers generally go for the low hanging fruit. I've done tests on this, and the number of spams received is far higher for unobfuscated email addresses. - -- Greg Sabino Mullane greg@turnstep.com PGP Key: 0x14964AC8 200601101538 http://biglumber.com/x/web?pk=2529DF6AB8F79407E94445B4BC9B906714964AC8 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iD8DBQFDxBv6vJuQZxSWSsgRAjHTAKCS3T2o1zPaZNESrUyrL9NZyuZgYgCg/GGW XxaU+C1A4Ol7ggUsTg9SMno= =zuf4 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----