Re: E-mail harvesting on PG lists?

> > This is truly worrisome... I wonder if spammers today are
> basically
> > subscribing to mailing lists so that they receive the
> e-mails (seems
> > like a very obvious trick), or if they're moving to the
> next level of
> > "decrypting" the "encrypted / anti-spam" form of e-mail
> addresses (the
> > way they're displayed on the mailing list web site)
>
> Our email lists are mirrored onto web sites like Google, so I
> am thinking they got it that way.

archives.postgresql.org properly "hides" the addresses. However, they
are mirrored to Usenet News, where anybody can pick them up. Much easier
that way, I bet that's what most use.

> > Any comments? If it is the first option above, then it feels like
> > by definition there is absolutely nothing that can be done, now or
> > ever :-(
>
> Yes, I came to that conclusion long ago.

That's the bottom line, though. Spamfilters help, but only part of the
way.

//Magnus