[wp-hackers] Re: Spam to addresses on the list

[Computer Guru]

But there are other archives that, quite unfortunately, don't.

And all an email harvester has to do is subscribe to a list his or herself,
and everyone's email is compromised - nothing anyone can do about that.

On a sidenote - Viper, you mean IMAP, right? SMTP has been there from the
very beginning.....

-CG

-----Original Message-----
From: wp-hackers-bounces at lists.automattic.com
[mailto:wp-hackers-bounces at lists.automattic.com] On Behalf Of Viper007Bond
Sent: Wednesday, December 05, 2007 8:02 AM
To: wp-hackers at lists.automattic.com
Subject: Re: [wp-hackers] Re: Spam to addresses on the list

I too have Google host my @viper007bond.com e-mail. It's especially useful
since they support catchalls and now SMTP (I use their HTTP interface
though). Plus, the 14000 spam e-mails it's caught in the past 30 days and
receiving new mail notices via GTalk is nice (login with your full e-mail
address).

Anyway, as for getting spam at your address, nothing anyone can do about it.
Mailman isn't handing it out last I looked and spammers already have your
e-mail address via an archive, official or not.

Google's at least makes you fill out a CAPCHA before you can see the full
addresses:
http://groups.google.com/group/wp-hackers/browse_thread/thread/e1a41cebba9f2
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On 12/4/07, Chris Poteet <cpoteet at siolon.com> wrote:
>
> I do hosted Gmail as well, and it is amazing.  www.google.com/a/
>
> On Dec 4, 11:43 pm, Computer Guru <computerg... at neosmart.net> wrote:
> > I gave up on obfuscation and security via obscurity -- I receive around
> 1600
> > spam *daily* to this address which post literally everywhere.
> >
> > Solution: hosted gmail which filters out all but one or two spam per
> day.
> > Quite impressive.
> >
> > (though Gmail _does_ have false positives, I wouldn't know since I never
> go
> > into the spam folder to check)
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: wp-hackers-boun... at lists.automattic.com
> >
> > [mailto:wp-hackers-boun... at lists.automattic.com] On Behalf Of Callum
> > Macdonald
> > Sent: Wednesday, December 05, 2007 5:03 AM
> > To: wp-hack... at lists.automattic.com
> > Subject: [wp-hackers] Spam to addresses on the list
> >
> > G'day,
> >
> > I use individual email addresses for each mailing list I'm on. I'm
> > starting to get a fair bit of spam (700 in a week) to the address for
> > this list. Is there anything the list admins can do to improve the
> > situation?
> >
> > I'm guessing the standard obfuscation on list archive is probably not
> > sufficient to keep a smart harvester at bay. Stripping characters from
> > emails would probably work better, or something like that.
> >
> > I don't have a lot of time now, just wanted to float the idea.
> >
> > Cheers - Callum.
> >
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