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Spam prevention and privacy on list



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "I.M.Walberg" <imw at tiac.net>

> Hi,
>
> Since I've been so successful with getting help on analyzing my network
> traffic, I thought I'd ask what the Linux crew recommends for reading
> their email and filtering spam (and yes, I did read dsr's message from
> 8/24).
>
> I noticed that this list's archives are open to the public and email
> addresses are not obfuscated (nor are home addresses apparently).  Does
> this concern anyone?  I get an enormous amount of spam.  This address is
> listed on some web sites, but with some of my more private email aliases,
> I'm not sure where they're harvesting the information.

[snip]

Yes, it concerns me: I've had addresses harvested from the GPG keysigning
entries, and would welcome a change to obfuscate any email address shown to
the public.

Bill






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