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Newsgroup displays email Address |
Thu, Jan 15 2009 7:00 AM | Permanent Link |
John | Hello.
I have noticed that I am receiving more spam today, since I began posting here on the ElevateSoft Newsgroup. The reason I think is because that your email-address is displayed when you press "Reply" to a post, and all email-addresses are therefore indexed by search engines and spam bots. Would it not be better if the Newsgroup did not show members email-addresses? Thanks, Eydun |
Fri, Jan 16 2009 3:45 PM | Permanent Link |
"Jeff Cook" | John wrote:
> Hello. > > I have noticed that I am receiving more spam today, since I began > posting here on the ElevateSoft Newsgroup. The reason I think is > because that your email-address is displayed when you press "Reply" > to a post, and all email-addresses are therefore indexed by search > engines and spam bots. > > Would it not be better if the Newsgroup did not show members > email-addresses? > > Thanks, > Eydun Kia Orana Eydun Depending on your newsreader (I guess), you should be able use a fake email address like others here do. e.g. jeffAToysterDOTnetDOTck info@removethis.info.co.ck which should defeat the spammer 99.9% of the time. Kia Manuia Jeff -- Jeff Cook Aspect Systems Ltd www.aspect.co.nz + Joan and Jeff Cook The Cooks Oasis www.cookislandsoasis.com |
Sat, Jan 17 2009 3:51 AM | Permanent Link |
Roy Lambert NLH Associates Team Elevate | Jeff
Just check the headers for that post Roy Lambert |
Sun, Jan 18 2009 12:44 PM | Permanent Link |
John | I agree and know that I can use a fake email-address to prevent being caught up by spam-robots. But would it not be better is the elevatesoft
newsgroup on the web did not show the email address at all? Roy Lambert <roy.lambert@skynet.co.uk> wrote: Jeff Just check the headers for that post Roy Lambert |
Sun, Jan 18 2009 1:02 PM | Permanent Link |
Tim Young [Elevate Software] Elevate Software, Inc. timyoung@elevatesoft.com | John,
<< I have noticed that I am receiving more spam today, since I began posting here on the ElevateSoft Newsgroup. The reason I think is because that your email-address is displayed when you press "Reply" to a post, and all email-addresses are therefore indexed by search engines and spam bots. Would it not be better if the Newsgroup did not show members email-addresses? >> I'll remove the email addresses from the reply. However, in the future you should not use your real email address because spammers can just scan the newsgroup headers and come up with the same information. -- Tim Young Elevate Software www.elevatesoft.com |
Sun, Jan 18 2009 1:29 PM | Permanent Link |
Roy Lambert NLH Associates Team Elevate | John
It would take a bit more than that. Tim would have to mask out stuff from the headers from anyone downloading stuff from the newsgroups using nntp as well. Roy Lambert |
Sun, Jan 18 2009 1:33 PM | Permanent Link |
Roy Lambert NLH Associates Team Elevate | Tim
I would say its much more likely that they're getting them from the headers rather than scraping them from screen. Roy Lambert |
Tue, Jan 20 2009 1:43 PM | Permanent Link |
Tim Young [Elevate Software] Elevate Software, Inc. timyoung@elevatesoft.com | Roy,
<< I would say its much more likely that they're getting them from the headers rather than scraping them from screen. >> I would say that its both. -- Tim Young Elevate Software www.elevatesoft.com |
Tue, Jan 20 2009 9:09 PM | Permanent Link |
"Jeff Cook" | Roy Lambert wrote:
> Jeff > > > Just check the headers for that post > > Roy Lambert I'll crawl back under my (coral) rock! -- Jeff Cook Aspect Systems Ltd www.aspect.co.nz + Joan and Jeff Cook The Cooks Oasis www.cookislandsoasis.com |
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