[Fsfe-ie] Re: Spammers pulling addresses from these groups
Ciaran O'Riordan
ciaran at member.fsf.org
Sat Jan 10 11:33:34 CET 2004
James> Maybe the spammers will now recognise and harvest "a at b.org" ?
Myself and Niall talked about this off list (slightly off topic).
When I quoted niall before, I included his email address. pipermail
converts '@' to ' at ' in the online archives, but there is also a
gzipped text file of the archives where the conversion doesn't take
place. So there's three possibilities for why Niall it getting spam:
1/ The spambots have cracked the ' at ' conversion.
(Alan Cox says they all have)
http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-list/2003-December/msg00018.html
2/ The spambots are downloading gzip files, unzipping them, and scanning
them. Gzip mailing list files available from here:
http://mail.fsfeurope.org/pipermail/fsfe-ie/
3/ The spambots are subscribing to mailing lists and then looking at the
subscibers list page. (fsfe-ie has the subscribers list set to private,
but discussion at fsfeurope.org has it public.)
Nothing we can do about 1 or 3, but for 2, we should make sure not to
include unarmoured email addresses in our mails. (I'll stop. I don't
know if anyone else has been doing this.)
end of thread?
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