what is the status of archives containing full email addresses. I thought this problem has been fixed. can you update me on what is the current style of archiving, and what is visible.
Nagarjuna
-------- Original Message -------- Subject: Increase in spam due to the mirror? Date: Sun, 19 Mar 2006 15:29:07 -0800 (PST) From: Aditya Newalkar adityanewalkar@yahoo.com To: nagarjun@gnowledge.org
Hi, I used to subscribe to ILUG-BOM couple of years ago and later stopped due to other interests. I used to use this email address to post my messages. I have noticed suddenly that this email address that never used to recieve spam is suddenly recieving lots of it.
One reason might be that the pages containing my old messages have now been mirrored on gnowledge.org and since indexed by google. These pages on gnowledge.org contain all the email addresses including mine in clear text. So I am suspecting spammers have gotten hold of them and lot of other active/inactive members have been recieving spam but ignoring it.
I request you to kindly look into this and disable printing out email address in clear text on gnowledge.org postings.
Thanks, Aditya Newalkar
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Sometime on Mon, Mar 20, 2006 at 10:32:39AM +0530, Nagarjuna said:
what is the status of archives containing full email addresses. I thought this problem has been fixed. can you update me on what is the current style of archiving, and what is visible.
Currently, Mailman's sources have been modified so that any new archives generated, will have the email address part masked. This means all the older archive mails (before October 2005) will still have email addresses in plain text.
I'll try to write a script which updates email addresses for the older entries in the archives also.
There is no issue of mirroring since gnowledge.org is the default wrapper domain.
Anurag
-------- Original Message -------- Subject: Increase in spam due to the mirror? Date: Sun, 19 Mar 2006 15:29:07 -0800 (PST) From: Aditya Newalkar adityanewalkar@yahoo.com To: nagarjun@gnowledge.org
Hi, I used to subscribe to ILUG-BOM couple of years ago and later stopped due to other interests. I used to use this email address to post my messages. I have noticed suddenly that this email address that never used to recieve spam is suddenly recieving lots of it.
One reason might be that the pages containing my old messages have now been mirrored on gnowledge.org and since indexed by google. These pages on gnowledge.org contain all the email addresses including mine in clear text. So I am suspecting spammers have gotten hold of them and lot of other active/inactive members have been recieving spam but ignoring it.
I request you to kindly look into this and disable printing out email address in clear text on gnowledge.org postings.