From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 28497 invoked by alias); 11 Jul 2002 16:07:36 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Received: (qmail 28490 invoked from network); 11 Jul 2002 16:07:35 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO lacrosse.corp.redhat.com) (66.187.233.200) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 11 Jul 2002 16:07:35 -0000 Received: from redhat.com (vpn50-1.rdu.redhat.com [172.16.50.1]) by lacrosse.corp.redhat.com (8.11.6/8.9.3) with ESMTP id g6BG7Ys26264 for ; Thu, 11 Jul 2002 12:07:34 -0400 Received: by redhat.com (Postfix, from userid 201) id 30A891C359; Thu, 11 Jul 2002 12:07:42 -0400 (EDT) Date: Thu, 11 Jul 2002 09:41:00 -0000 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: email harvesting (Was: typo correction) Message-ID: <20020711160742.GA8649@redhat.com> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <20020711152759.GC8291@redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.23.1i X-SW-Source: 2002-07/txt/msg00950.txt.bz2 On Thu, Jul 11, 2002 at 08:49:46AM -0700, Jehan wrote: >Christopher Faylor wrote: >>On Thu, Jul 11, 2002 at 01:38:25PM +0000, g. bush wrote: >>>(Using a throwaway account, because I think you post addresses >>>to the web for spammers to harvest) >> >>You would think wrong then, bunkee. > >Why not? Nothing keep them from (1) registring to the mailing list or >(2) parsing the archives (the encoding seems pretty straight forward) or >(3) reading the gmane.os.cygwin newsgroup on news.gmane.org I suppose that someone could also be going through your garbage looking for words with "@" signs in them or tapping your phone. Of course there are email harvesters out there. Maybe gmane posts unmunged addresses. I don't know. However gmane is not the people running the mailing list. It's a service run by another entity. When someone is addressing the "you" in the mailing list, I would assume that he was talking to the people who actually run the mailing list. The implication was that we put unmunged email headers "on the web", which is not true. Although it is possible for spammers to put addresses back together again from the web format "foo at bar dot com" I don't recall hearing about this being a common occurrence. If a spammer is actually lurking in the mailing list, sending email to people who post, I think I would have noticed. And, that case isn't "on the web" anyway. cgf -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/