There's always a cost/benifit analysis to be had when it comes to SPAM
and email lists in general. Most lists are presented in a similar
fashion to ours, simply because that's all the functionality that most
list archiving engines have. We usually assume that everyone gets
hundreds to thousands of SPAM a day, and have an appropriate anti-SPAM
solution in place on their MTA or MUA (or where ever.) In this case,
getting your email address published doesn't really effect the SPAM you
see by terribly much (especially since Spider SPAMers tend to be in the
"high scoring SPAM" region.)
Of course, we can always take the archives down... in the future we
have slated to build in search and anti-SPAM features, but since all the
list server archiving that we do publicly is free, this isn't super high
on our priority list.
Thanks.
Eben King wrote:
>
> On Sun, 12 Oct 2003, Smitty wrote:
> > Both SLUG and FLALUG have list archives which are hyperlinked from the
> > respective websites. The spam spiders crawl all the pages looking for
> > links to email addresses. I have done something to fight back by placing a
> > link to a bogus email address page on the menu which gives them lots of
> > junk address and resultant floods of returns. The only thing I could do is
> > eliminate the hyperlink and make it so that you would need to type the
> > address in. But that is very inconvenient.
> > So, you cannot blame nks.net for the list archives which I requested or the
> > hyperlink which I created when I did the html for the list page.
> > I suppose you could blame ME, but that would not be nice.
> > Let's be nice.
>
> What some list archives do is render the sender's address as a graphic.
> That seems like a good compromise between security and disclosure to me.
> Or, disguise the address by making each character a literal (I guess it's
> called -- where "A" -> "A", "B" -> "B", ... "Z" -> "Z", etc.).
> I've heard that's relatively spam-proof, but I have my doubts.
>
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