[wellylug] Personal info on the mailing list

[Martin Bähr]

On Mon, Jun 13, 2005 at 11:19:15AM +1200, Ewen McNeill wrote:
> >> That's a good point - if I do a google search on my email address I
> >> get a bunch of WellyLUG archived posts. Could this be the source of a
> >> lot of my spam? 
> FWIW, the Wellylug archives account for less than 2% of my spam (based
> on the spam in my spamtrap over the last copule of weeks; approximately
> 2000 messages).  Probably significantly less considering over 50
> spam message a day are getting through to my main mailbox at present
> (50*14 = 700).[0]

i second that.
i just happened to search through my spamfolder today.
i am on several dozend mailinglists with this address, but i get 10
times more spam through the address that is not used on any mailinglist
but at one point of time has been published widely on the web.

> (Mailman
> already obfuscates email addresses in most things it displays, but
> can't do anything about email addresses in the body of the messages.)

ain't that good enough then?
whoever puts their email address inside their message should know what
they are doing.

greetings, martin.
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