Spam will come, whatever you do to avoid, it is impossible to not receive "unwanted" messages. Specially if you have a old email account. You need to spread your address in order to use, you can't trust all websites you register will keep your address 100% "safe".
You have a gmail account, just set up some filters if spam starts to bother... 2014-08-21 13:25 GMT-03:00 Richie Bloss <sneydbl...@gmail.com>: > Yeah, it's always great to get insulted when posting to Linix forum = > "unlike you". > > If these are the hoops we are expected to jump thru in order to post to > the Ubuntu mailing lists then count me out. > > This will be my last post to this list since apparently I will have to > wait 2 & 1/2 years for it roll off the archive logs. > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: sd <superduper3...@outlook.com> > Date: Thu, Aug 21, 2014 at 10:16 AM > Subject: Re: Email visible to all > To: lubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com > > > I also no dot like my email to be visible in the web mail list. However, > unlike you, I looked and got informed first before I joined the mail list - > then I created a funny email address at outlook.com (which you can see) > that I use only for this list. > > Outlook.com blocked this email address once last year. I could see all my > emails and receive emails from this list, but they did not allow me to send > emails (so I could not respond). I had to go one month over microsoft > email support to get back access. They told me it was somehow compromised - > however there were no emails send from or deleted from it. I guess someone > had guessed the password or something like that given my initial password > was relatively weak. > > Once they restored my full access, I changed the password to a random > string of maximum allowed length. My desktop email client remembers the > random password. So it could be that just by using this list your email > gets compromised if you password is weak. > > Anyway even if they remove your email from the web, a spammer could in > theory be also a (respectable :) member of this list and can still see all > emails via the email program. The best would the mail list software does > not send the emails at all, but it is too much I think to ask them change > it. The email are also referenced by the email program when you reply, so > your email now ends up also in the message body text (I put ... for your > email in the quoted text in this answer :). > > > On 20/08/14 21:45, Richie Bloss wrote: > > Thanks I will work this from a different angle & try to contact someone > from the main lists page, perhaps they can remove references to my > name/email. > > Open shouldn't mean avail for spammers to grab your email. > > > On Tue, Aug 19, 2014 at 6:00 PM, ∅ <ca .... @yahoo.com > <carsrcoffin...@yahoo.com>> wrote: > >> > I am >> > concerned that a security hole is present. >> >> It seems this is not consistent with the definitions one can find, such >> as: >> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Security_hole >> >> > When I did a Google search on my name yesterday an old post to the >> *mailing >> > list * dated 7/22/2013 appeared with my gmail id. >> >> It's obfuscated. Spammers are not likely to make much use out of it. >> >> If you're trying to hide your email from the Internet, then that may >> be a problem, but that's totally consistent with the ENTIRETY of >> Ubuntu's mailing lists. If you have a problem, you need to bring it to >> Ubuntu as a whole. There are ways around this given the software used >> (mailman), but it's not Lubuntu's fault. You should look at the main >> lists page and find some people to contact there: >> https://lists.ubuntu.com/ >> (yes, all those lists have this problem) >> >> > Also I can access the The Lubuntu-users Archives without any login >> process >> > & my along all other email (gmail) addresses is there for anyone to see. >> > This seems like a large breach in security to me. Am I incorrect? >> >> This is the default for mailman, actually. Not hard to fix, but it >> does need to be applied universally and Ubuntu as a whole would need >> to agree with it. >> >> Good luck, >> wxl >> > > > > > > -- > Lubuntu-users mailing list > Lubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com > Modify settings or unsubscribe at: > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/lubuntu-users > > > > -- > Lubuntu-users mailing list > Lubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com > Modify settings or unsubscribe at: > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/lubuntu-users > >
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