[BLT] Re: [HQRP] our email addresses are being posted on the internet for spammers to collect

[J.D. Stevens]

The return address is to the poster to protect those who send a quick 
reply without considering whether the reply goes to the group rather 
than the individual who sent the original message. It has helped save 
some people from some serious embarrassment!

I use Mailman 2.0.13 as the list manager. I have specifically chosen the 
option to obfuscate the email addresses. I think it is supposed to 
replace @ with _at_. Apparently the feature is "broken."

I have also chosen to make the archives available on the web because 
they have great value for anyone doing research on a problem that has 
been addressed in a list.

   Dave

Howard Bingham wrote:
> What is most disturbing is that the messages include the full e-mail 
> address of the person posting the message for spammers to copy to their 
> list's..
> 
> Wouldn't the source of the message have to be a subscriber to this list..?
> 
> Howard Bingham
> 
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> At 12:22 PM 11/15/2003 -0600, Craig Davidson wrote:
> 
>> Look what I found on google today.
>>
>> http://www.stevens.com/pipermail/hqrp/2003/000818.html
>>
>> Did you guys know that this remailer was posting our email addresses 
>> on the
>> internet so they can be collected and used to send us spam?
>>
>> This is very dissipointing.
>>
> -- 
> 
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