[Elecraft] Re: Spam alert

[Martin AC6RM]

My understanding is that spam bots look for the character '@' as the
starting point for digging out an email address when they scrape web
pages.  If you do a "view" "source" on archive messages, you'll notice
that there aren't any as they are encoded.  It's kinda clever, actually
(wasn't my brainchild; came with the package).

I'm sure the bots'll get more intelligent, but then so will the archivers.
 A never-ending story, I'm afraid (as long as there's money in it).

You'll note that I subscribe to this list with the email address
"elecraft(at)ac6rm.net".  I did that on purpose.  I own the ac6rm.net
domain so I can create any email address I want within that domain and do
anything I want with it.  The point being that if I receive spam addressed
to that email address then I know they got the email address from the
elecraft list, somehow, or because someone put it on their web page.

To date, I have received no -- that's zero -- spam addressed to that email
address (knock-on-K2-case), and I've been subscribed since around
Christmas.

I have, however, received BOAT LOADS of spam directed to my ARRL.NET
alias.  I shut that down a few weeks ago it was so bad.  I also get it
addressed to pgsql(at)ac6rm.net -- my postgresql list subscription
address.

Anyhoozit, I cannot speak for the mailman.qth.net archives; only the ones
I maintain.

73, Martin AC6RM K2#3021


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I agree, and right away.

best wishes,

dave belsley, w1euy

--On Thursday, May 1, 2003 6:29 PM +0200 Jibeji <f8dql@radioamateur.org>
wrote:


All these softwares are efficient but perhaps the best solution is to
suppress our addresses from the archive ?


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