Re: The ..... worm

> Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2003 01:40:28 -0400
> From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@dcc.uchile.cl>
> To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
> Cc: expect <expect@ihubbell.com>, pgsql-general@postgresql.org
> Subject: Re: The ..... worm
> Message-ID: <20030828054028.GE7382@dcc.uchile.cl>
>
> On Thu, Aug 28, 2003 at 12:17:21AM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> > expect <expect@ihubbell.com> writes:
> > > Other lists I subscribe to do not suffer from the spam plague in
the
> > > way this list does.  I wish I'd known that before signing on
rather
> > > than after.
> >
> > [ raised eyebrow ]  I subscribe to many mailing lists.  On most of
the
> > other lists I have to apply spam filtering to what arrives, but the
PG
> > lists are very nearly spam-free (thanks to Marc's hard work).  I
dunno
> > what you are complaining about.
>
> It is a valid complaint.  The fact was that the archives (at least on
> archives.postgresql.org) kept the email addresses verbatim, right in
front of the eyes > > of any spammer's web crawler.
>
> Fortunately, Cristoph Dalitz's repeated complaints have finally caused
Marc to
> reconfigure MHonArc so it won't publish the addresses.


Hi everyone,

While we are still on this topic, can I put in another request? What I
didn't realise when I joined the postgresql mailing lists is that emails
to the mailing lists are sent to usenet comp.databases.postgresql.*
WITHOUT obfuscation/removal of email addresses. While I am happy for my
email address to be visible to private members of a mailing list, I
wasn't aware until after I had posted to the list and the spam started
trickling in that the email address was available publically on usenet
:(.

Mark, would it cause anyone any great problems if posts gated onto the
newsgroups had their email addresses removed, and would this be
possible? I can't see that it would cause anybody any problems since
casual readers could then still read/post to the group, and anyone
involved with any of the postgresql lists long enough for this to be a
problem would probably end up subscribing via email anyway. Anyone else
have any feelings on this? I know it's too late for most of us but it
might help some newbies...


Cheers,

Mark.

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