List to Spam Harvest

[Josh Whitver]

Most web archives of mailing lists hide or otherwise obfuscate the  
email addresses, however.

See:
http://lists.apple.com/archives/macos-x-server/2009/Feb/threads.html

Or:
http://lists.psu.edu/cgi-bin/wa?A1=ind0902&L=macenterprise

Or:
http://lists.roundcube.net/protect/identify.php
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Josh Whitver
whitverj at urbandale.k12.ia.us / josh at whitver.net
Don't worry if you're a kleptomaniac, you can always take something  
for it.




On Feb 27, 2009, at 12:03 PM, David Lang wrote:

> On Fri, 27 Feb 2009, John Thomas wrote:
>
>> I know little, so please forgive if this is wrong.
>> The following link seems to be crawled by Google and exposes our  
>> email
>> addresses to spam harvesters.  I wonder if it makes sense and is
>> possible to not do this or obfuscate the addresses?
>> http://cyrusimap.web.cmu.edu/archive/mailbox.php?mailbox=archive.info-cyrus
>
> if you send mail to a public mailing list it can be harvested by  
> spammers.
>
> David Lang
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