> -----Original Message-----
> From: netbsd-help-owner@NetBSD.org
> [mailto:netbsd-help-owner@NetBSD.org]On Behalf Of Frederick Bruckman
> Sent: Tuesday, September 23, 2003 8:33 PM
> To: mlh@goatnospamhill.org
> Cc: netbsd-help@NetBSD.org
> Subject: Re: foo
>
>
> On Tue, 24 Sep 2003, MLH wrote:
> > On 23 Sep 2003 16:00:00 -0500, Fernando Ortiz wrote:
> > >> From: Michael G. Schabert [mailto:mikeride@mac.com]
> > >> >
> > >> >The only spam and virus activity I am receiving is through the
> > >> email address
> > >> >I use for this list. Is there a web site somewhere logging this
> > >> list that is
> > >> >susceptible to harvesting?
> > >>
> > >> Both of the above are possibilities for harvesting, or the worm may
> > >> just be coming from a subscriber(s) or former subscriber(s) to the
> > >> list(s).
> > >
> > > Ok, for some reason I didn't check the provided links. Yeah they look
> > > harvestable. Addresses are not munged in any way. Thanks for
> the reply Mike
> > > (even tho i accidently sent directly to you instead of the list). :-)
> >
> > Though none of the email gets through my postfix filtering, I am
> > seeing thousands of different machines in my maillog. I think far
> > too many to be attributable to replication via a subscriber virus.
> > Thus my initial suspicion that it is harvesting email addresses
> > from archives (of some sort - whether mailist or nntp).
>
> One of the recent "Microsoft Worms" was reported to Google for email
> addresses, but I haven't heard that said about the latest (Sven).
> For whatever reason, though, I'm getting a lot of hits to addresses
> I've used on Usenet a long time ago, and also to my NetBSD address.
>
> Frederick

I like this list a lot however I'm afraid I'm going to have to give up my
email address with all the spam and virus I am now getting. Is there a
chance of convincing the operators to parse and munge the email addresses in
the archives? I think that's a big hole. I'm sure it's been discussed before
but I can't locate it.

Thanks again.
Fernando

PS: is everyone here using email interface or web interface? Perhaps that's
the thing I'm missing. I don't see a web interface anywhere. Will that hide
the email address?