30 Mar
2005
30 Mar
'05
4:38 p.m.
On Wed, 30 Mar 2005, Arnold Krille wrote:
As maintainer of the "official" archive, we do hide email addresses in the
archives - please see latest archives for examples at:
http://lalists.stanford.edu/lau/2005/03/
This has been in place already for at least 3-5 years -- I cannot remember
the exact date when we started email address hiding.
I've also sent requests to the list asking all unofficial archive
maintainers to take the spam issue into account.
Its just one
way to reduce spam. I do think list managers should
protect thier users. This one doesn't?
We don't talk about
"the" list archive. You went out to the public ;-) install and train
spamassasin/bogofilter and
don't worry about spam any more. And don't buy the pills you get offered...
I used my previous address for +10 years and it is now getting 200-400
spams a day. Sure I can filter it, but looking for false-positives is just
impossible with this much spam coming in. So I've now gone through with
the painful operation of changing my address, and now get a lot less spam
(actually almost none). I know I won't be spam free forever, but any steps
to slow down the spam flood is _very_ welcome. Hiding addresses in openly
available archives is one easy step to take - less spam to filter,
everybody wins.
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