Hi there, On Mon, 24 Sep 2012, Joel Esler wrote:
Maybe you are talking about something I'm not aware of.
This is standard mailing list etiquette going back, I guess, almost a couple of decades and I'm both surprised and disappointed to have to go over it here.
But by the pure fact that you are emailing a mailing list shows your email address. It's not a secret. Aside from the fact that most mail clients put it right back in the reply (as shown above, like mine does).
This is not about what happens when people subscribe to mailing lists, nor about what your mail client may or may not do to be helpful.
So maybe we are confused about what you are talking about,
It does look that way. :)
or perhaps you are.
Nope. Mailing lists are archived by a number of list archiving systems which both archive the content of list messages and and publish it on their Websites. Unlike the lists to which I subscribe, it is not necessary to make any form of subscription to be able to search these archives. For that reason they are regularly trawled by spammers' email address harvesting bots. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E-mail_address_harvesting For that reason, the responsible list archive managers do not publish the message headers (except of course for the 'Subject:' header) and when they serve pages of text containing the mail messages that they have archived, they use various techniques to try to avoid publication of email addresses which happen to be included in the message bodies. But the software which does this is not infallible, so it makes sense to minimize the risk. It has long been accepted practice to avoid placing email addresses in the body of any mail message which is sent to any mailing list. -- 73, Ged. _______________________________________________ Help us build a comprehensive ClamAV guide: visit http://wiki.clamav.net http://www.clamav.net/support/ml
