hiding e-mail adresses needed badly

[Peter Schultz]

At this point in time it's downright irresponsible not to hide our 
addresses.

I've been lurking on this list about a month to get caught up with 
-current issues.  Friday was both the first mail I sent to the list,
and the first use of this e-mail address.  The only incoming mail was 
from the FreeBSD lists I subscribed to.  However, since that fateful 
e-mail I have been viciously attacked by spammers posing as Microsoft 
security updaters.  These spams include attachments making them all 
around 150KB in size.  Maybe others of you have seen them?

As far as I can tell, these guys are targeting the FreeBSD lists, 
exploiting them terribly!  This list's charter states that spam will be 
blocked.  Please enforce the list charter, with prejudice.

It would be best if subscribers could just choose to have their address 
published or not.  I can understand being so dedicated to the cause that 
you're willing to take on some spam.  Non-subscribers addresses should 
definitely not be published.

Sincerely,
Pete...

Wilko Bulte wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 15, 2003 at 03:29:21PM +0400, Andrey Chernov wrote:
> 
> 
> I fail to see why this is relevant to -current but OK.. I think that
> the opportunity to do this has long since passed. Just type your name
> in Google and see what happens..
> 
> Wilko
> 
> 
>>Due to increased activity of SPAM harvesters what are our plans to hide 
>>our addresses from public WWW? I mean all browseable mailing lists, 
>>FreeBSD site, CVS via WWW, PRs, ports and docs.
>>
>>As I think, simple <user [at] domain.com> form will be enough to stop 
>>them.
>>
>>-- 
>>Andrey Chernov | http://ache.pp.ru/
> 
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>