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Re: OT - Spam
From: Thomas Templin <templin () gnuwhv de>
Date: Fri, 25 Apr 2003 20:35:41 +0200
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 25 April 2003 02:03, mikem () alaska net wrote: [...]
Although I agree that obfuscating email addresses in a manner that confuses bots but still allows humans to read them would be beneficial, I've found that spamassassin does wonders for weeding out the loads of spam I get every day.
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On Thu, 24 Apr 2003 bmcdowell () coxhealthplans com wrote:I've noticed that by doing a google search for my own e-mail address, it only appears on web-archives of these two mailing lists. Could you respective Admins please take steps to obfuscate the actual e-mail addresses before posting them to the web? As I understand it, 'bare' e-mail addresses on web pages are big targets for spammers. I enjoy participating in these lists, however I have notices that my inbound spam has tripled since I joined them. If it can't be fixed, I can respect that. But it can, you'd probably be doing your user-base a huge favor.
[...] I would agree that using spamassassin is a good way to filter spam mails on a local workstation but you may concern that this will not be a suitable way to stop spammers from digging for email adresses in such 'nonobfuscated' archives. So if Bob will ask the owner of these archives to take care of obfuscating their archives he could need some assistance from the snort-users-list maintainer. May be it will be a good idea to 'flood' such archive maintainers with emails from snort-list subscribers. Ouuch, that might be be spam too, wouldn't it. :-)) bye, Thomas - -- Thomas Templin - Germany - Friesland Fachkraft für Agitation und Propaganda im Dienste Freier Software Informationen zu Freier Software in Weser Ems gnuwhv.de -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+qYAFwUbCBG+D/AIRAtSVAJ98+BJHiLaIX37KX5OdLtvoFNlSeQCgtW2w T5rc2jkR/cOpzh285KZ8k9Q= =62Td -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf _______________________________________________ Snort-users mailing list Snort-users () lists sourceforge net Go to this URL to change user options or unsubscribe: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/snort-users Snort-users list archive: http://www.geocrawler.com/redir-sf.php3?list=snort-users
Current thread:
- OT - Spam bmcdowell (Apr 24)
- Re: OT - Spam Matt Kettler (Apr 24)
- Re: OT - Spam mikem (Apr 24)
- Re: OT - Spam Julian Brown (Apr 25)
- Re: OT - Spam Thomas Templin (Apr 25)
- RE: OT - Spam Michael Steele (Apr 25)
- OT: list archives and e-mail addresses (Re: OT - Spam) Andrew R. Baker (Apr 25)
- <Possible follow-ups>
- Re: OT - Spam JP Vossen (Apr 24)