Re: [APML] OT: Spam (was: Brian Larmay: You may have a virus)

["Shekhar Borde" <shekhar@prodigy.net>]

> > Gene: Can we make it so that people's email address does not show up
> > in the email or in the archives? 
> 
> Not really.  The somewhat good side is that it is almost unheard of 
> for spammers to harvest from small, private special interest lists
> like this one.  The tend to go after mass sources, like usenet or
> the public lists like Yahoo.  They don't go picking through
> APML postings.
> 

Are you saying you'd rather not do it or that it is not possible with the
current listbot software?

Anyway, I agree that the probablity of someone subscribing to APML
to harvest addresses is small.  However the probability that they could
get addresses from the archives is much higher.  It's just a bunch of
web pages -- anyone with a browser can get to them.  

Maybe a little perlie script could remove the domain portion of the email 
address while HTML-izing the emails for the archive.  I could write
something up if you could find out if it's easy to add a filtering script.

> > If a list member wants to send another
> > list member a private email, they will need to send a query to the listbot to
> > get that person's email address 
> 
> Ah, but _this_ is how they do harvest addresses <g>.  But I (should) have
> the list set to where this info is not given out.  

Yes, a single 'who' command will send a nicely formatted list of fresh
spamees to anyone who wants it.  But I thought you had to be a list
subscriber for the listbot to honor your command (not that someone
couldn't spoof the sender's email address).

Shekhar



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