Guillaume MULLER writes: > Hi all, > > I recently sent an email on this mailing list (see > https://orgmode.org/list/b1e778c5-acbf-8a17-c9bf-dcb6693e9...@univ-st-etienne.fr/ > ) > > Since then, I'm receiving spams on the email address I used to send > the message. > > After some research, it seems that this email address only appears on > 2 websites, notably this orgmode.org mailing list archive.
Your email address can also be harvested from the lists.gnu.org archives. Inspect the output of $ curl -fSsL https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-orgmode/2020-07/msg00125.html $ curl -fSsL https://lists.gnu.org/archive/mbox/emacs-orgmode/2020-07 > Would it be possible to configure the archive to obfuscate / hide the > email addresses inorder to protect its users? <https://orgmode.org/list> and its upstream source <https://yhetil.org/orgmode> are public-inbox (<https://public-inbox.org/>) archives. There's an option (disabled by default) to configure address obfuscation. However, in my view email obfuscation is giving you a false sense of security. Ignoring other ways spammers get your address, you're posting to a public space, and your address can be harvested (and, as shown above, not just from these public-inbox archives). And this isn't something specific to Org mode's archives. Just as some examples, take a look at <https://lore.kernel.org/git/>, <https://issues.guix.gnu.org/>, <https://lists.sr.ht/~sircmpwn/sr.ht-discuss/>, or <https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2021-04/msg00285.html>. Anyway, that being said and despite my opinion on this, I'm considering turning on obfuscation at <https://orgmode.org/list> and <https://yhetil.org/orgmode>. There's at least one issue that'd need to be fixed before doing so though: <https://public-inbox.org/meta/87a6q8p5qa....@kyleam.com/>.
