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Thread Newsgroup displays email Address
Thu, Jan 15 2009 7:00 AMPermanent 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 PMPermanent 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

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Sat, Jan 17 2009 3:51 AMPermanent Link

Roy Lambert

NLH Associates

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Jeff


Just check the headers for that post Smiley

Roy Lambert
Sun, Jan 18 2009 12:44 PMPermanent 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 Smiley

Roy Lambert
Sun, Jan 18 2009 1:02 PMPermanent Link

Tim Young [Elevate Software]

Elevate Software, Inc.

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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.

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Tim Young
Elevate Software
www.elevatesoft.com

Sun, Jan 18 2009 1:29 PMPermanent Link

Roy Lambert

NLH Associates

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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 PMPermanent Link

Roy Lambert

NLH Associates

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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 PMPermanent Link

Tim Young [Elevate Software]

Elevate Software, Inc.

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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. Smiley

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Elevate Software
www.elevatesoft.com

Tue, Jan 20 2009 9:09 PMPermanent Link

"Jeff Cook"
Roy Lambert wrote:

> Jeff
>
>
> Just check the headers for that post Smiley
>
> Roy Lambert

I'll crawl back under my (coral) rock!

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