Posted by Jochem Maas on 03/03/05 20:18

John Nichel wrote:
> Richard Lynch wrote:
>
>> Jochem Maas wrote:
>>
>>> AdamT wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Tue, 01 Mar 2005 11:11:47 -0500, bob <phpgen@antonakis.co.uk> wrote:
>>
>>
>> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>>
>>>>> Well, this time it took just 11 days to get my first bit of spam from
>>>>> this mailing list.
>>
>>
>>
>> Folks, I think the OP set up a custom email before posting, and it took
>> only 11 days for it to get harvested and spam to pour in.
>>
>> Frankly, I'm surprised it took that long.
>>
>> Or maybe that's only the spam that got past existing filtering.
>>
>> Perhaps a concerted effort to contact responsible administrators of
>> archive to get them to obfuscate email addresses is a Good Idea.
>>
>> Dunno who's going to actually *DO* it, mind you...
>>
>
> That would be a looooonnnnnnng list of admins. This list (as well as
> most OS lists) seems to archived everywhere these days.
>

I'm willing to bet that half the servers that archive mailing lists are doing ao
for nefarious SEO reasons (it doesn't matter what the content is - as long as
they can wrap it in paid advertising)

- the upshot being they really don't give a **** about spam harvesters.

....so you get half the admins being cool and obsfucating email addrs on pages
containing list archives and the email harvesters using the other halfs archives :-(

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