Administrivia #30680 - Spam harvesting and NTBugtraq
From: Russ (Russ.Cooper_at_RC.ON.CA)
Date: 09/22/03
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Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2003 12:28:38 -0400 To: NTBUGTRAQ@LISTSERV.NTBUGTRAQ.COM
FYI, spammers harvest email addresses from web sites. NTBugtraq's web archives are on-line, not only my copy, but also at many other locations. Ergo, if you post to NTBugtraq it is likely your email address will end up on some spammers list. I've had one subscriber inform me that an address he uses exclusively for posts to NTBugtraq has received spam.
I have tried to prevent spammers from harvesting from NTBugtraq's website through a variety of means, but I finally decided to get tough. I have "despammed" all of the email addresses in the archives by replacing the "@" auto-magically. Unfortunately I am unable to do this with the emails themselves, as no doubt some archive mirrors will not take the same or similar steps I have. I have asked that people not put mirrors of NTBugtraq on-line, but alas I can't stop them.
In any event, spammers will no longer be getting addresses from the NTBugtraq website copy of the archives. I wish I had thought of this sooner. You should be able to figure out the correct email addresses yourself when you look at the archives.
Cheers,
Russ - NTBugtraq Editor
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