Re: OT: Spam Mail on List?

[Jeff Nathan <jeff () snort org>]

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On Monday, October 27, 2003, at 02:29 PM, Chris Green wrote:

> It certainly can.  Archives are meant to be helpful and allow people
> to see WHAT was being talked about and WHO was saying it.
>
> I've often mailed people from a thread that happened 2 years ago to
> find out if they ever had particular results and I'm still getting
> email regarding projects that I might have appeared on a mailing list
> for a 1 week stint.

Chris,

Cut me some slack, 'eh?  We're all using the same Internet and you and 
I are involved in a number of projects.

Obscuring an email address isn't synonymous with preventing an archive 
viewer from being able to obtain the address of a correspondent.

The scheme used by http://marc.theaimsgroup.com is a simple but 
reasonably effective method of obscuring an email address so that it is 
more difficult to harvest but remains usable by humans.

Other schemes such as using a mailto link are somewhat helpful too.

> I hate spam and there are times when I think my 30mb of bayesian
> classifications + spam assassin to deal with spam is not sufficient
> but people can still interact with me.
>
> It's a crappy problem to deal with but hiding isn't going to solve the
> problem.

I hate spam too, and I'm not suggesting people hide from it.  I think 
it's reasonable to obscure email addresses to make automated harvesting 
less successful.

> --
> Chris Green <cmg () sourcefire com>
> "I'm beginning to think that my router may be confused."

- -Jeff

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