List to Spam Harvest

Ian Eiloart iane at sussex.ac.uk
Mon Mar 2 07:22:09 EST 2009


Sorry, ignore my last. I wasn't thinking.

--On 27 February 2009 10:03:10 -0800 David Lang 
<david.lang at digitalinsight.com> 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-cy
>> rus
>
> if you send mail to a public mailing list it can be harvested by spammers.
>
> David Lang
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Ian Eiloart
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