* RE: my e-mail address in your archives
@ 2003-05-05 18:54 Michael Schuh
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From: Michael Schuh @ 2003-05-05 18:54 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: cgf; +Cc: sourcemaster, overseers
Christopher et al,
I can appreciate the policy to not alter content of archives - let's avoid the 1984-ish overtones of modifying history. However, my request is to obsfucate my e-mail address to make it more difficult for spammers and their address harvesting web crawlers to pick up my address and use it. This is not so much a change in content as it is a change in how that content is presented. Note that the original version of the relevant article has made this change.
Yes, I know that once an address is "out there" it will continue to be used for a very long time, but can we at least reduce the onslaught of new ones?
Please make this change. Thank you very much.
--
Mike Schuh
-----Original Message-----
From: Christopher Faylor [mailto:cgf@redhat.com]
Sent: Wednesday, April 16, 2003 5:10 PM
To: Michael Schuh
Cc: sourcemaster@sources.redhat.com; overseers@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: my e-mail address in your archives
Site policy is to not alter content of archives except to remove viruses.
However, the people to argue this with are at overseers at sources dot redhat dot com
(cc'ed).
On Wed, Apr 16, 2003 at 04:39:42PM -0700, Michael Schuh wrote:
>My e-mail address has made its way into your archives, and I would like to get it removed. The offending web page is http://sources.redhat.com/ml/bug-gnu-utils/2002-07/msg00436.html (you will note that the other e-mail addresses on that page have been altered to hinder harvesting by spammers).
>
>In the original archives (http://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnu-utils/2002-07/msg00442.html) this alteration has already been done.
>
>The spam I am getting at this address is directly traceable to this message - I didn't get ANY spam until I sent my message to the bug-gnu-utils list.
>
>Thank you.
>
>--
>Mike Schuh
>
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@ 2003-04-17 0:09 ` Christopher Faylor
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From: Christopher Faylor @ 2003-04-17 0:09 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Michael Schuh; +Cc: sourcemaster, overseers
Site policy is to not alter content of archives except to remove viruses.
However, the people to argue this with are at overseers at sources dot redhat dot com
(cc'ed).
On Wed, Apr 16, 2003 at 04:39:42PM -0700, Michael Schuh wrote:
>My e-mail address has made its way into your archives, and I would like to get it removed. The offending web page is http://sources.redhat.com/ml/bug-gnu-utils/2002-07/msg00436.html (you will note that the other e-mail addresses on that page have been altered to hinder harvesting by spammers).
>
>In the original archives (http://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnu-utils/2002-07/msg00442.html) this alteration has already been done.
>
>The spam I am getting at this address is directly traceable to this message - I didn't get ANY spam until I sent my message to the bug-gnu-utils list.
>
>Thank you.
>
>--
>Mike Schuh
>
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