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RE: Spammers watching this user forum
- From: "guenter strubinsky" <strubinsky at acm dot org>
- To: <cygwin at cygwin dot com>,"'Todd Bowden'" <todd at stembol dot com>
- Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2003 15:10:33 -0500
- Subject: RE: Spammers watching this user forum
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com [mailto:cygwin-owner@cygwin.com] On Behalf
> Of Elfyn McBratney
> Sent: Thursday, 17 July, 2003 14:52
> To: Todd Bowden
> Cc: cygwin@cygwin.com
> Subject: Re: Spammers watching this user forum
>
> On Thu, 17 Jul 2003, Todd Bowden wrote:
>
> > Just received an email from an email address that only could of received
> > my address from this user list.
> >
> > My address was only created a couple weeks ago for the sole purpose of
> > emailing this user-list. Might there be a way to
> > hide peoples email addresses and just use their alias names instead of
> > publishing them on the user list thread?
>
> Unfortunately Todd sourceware^H^H^H^Hs.redhat.com is a haven for spam e-
> mail
> harvesters. We do munge addresses in the e-mail header in the archives but
> in
> reality all a spammer needs to do is subscribe to the list. There's not
> much we
> can do about it, especially when taking the mere number of subscribers
> into
> account.
>
> I must mention that Cygwin + SpamAssassin == 99.9% spam free. :-)
>
> Elfyn
>
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