[Elecraft] Re: Spam alert

[Eric Swartz WA6HHQ - Elecraft]

Hi Larry,

Point taken. Fortunately, I don't believe the SPAM robots are onto this yet. 
(But who knows in the future!) We actually have posted from test addresses 
that are not used elsewhere just to check for this and have not received any 
SPAM so far.

The programs that generate the archives are not under our direct control. The 
mailman software is provided by qth.net and Martin is using code from another 
engine. There are certainly ways to further obscure the addresses, but we as 
users may have to wait until the list program providers add that feature to 
their code.

73,  Eric


Larry Mollica wrote:
> Not to quibble (well ok, I am), but I don't get why there is an 
> assumption the spambots are dumber than the search engines.
> 
> I can do a google search on my address and get hits in the elecraft 
> archives, in spite of the escaping of "@". Why would spambot software 
> have trouble doing the same thing?
> 
> The web archive is why I too cooked up a "throw-away" address for use on 
> this list. When the spam starts, I'll toss it and start over.
> 
> Sorry this is straying off, what I wanted to say was; if I had my 
> druthers, I'd prefer to see email addresses more effectively obscured in 
> the elecraft archives. But I'm guessing that would not be a popular notion.