If one of the 8630 CPAN authors happens to need work of the
type that this "spamming" company is offering, and finds work
with them, I for one consider that a good trade vs. we other
8629 having to maintain our email filters that eliminate
thousands of spam messages per week.
We once had 14K per week. The current week is down to 2600.
That's one good piece of news in the world.
Craig MacKenna
http://www.animalhead.com
On Sep 6, 2011, at 2:52 AM, Olof Johansson wrote:
On 2011-09-06 10:15 +0100, Nicholas Clark wrote:
But it does seem that the *only* firm that is* spamming CPAN
authors is
Betonmarkets, as they've done it *again*.
Well, that's not true. They are however one of very few that could
pass as ham, and will therefore pass through many spam filters. The
problem is that there is a list of 8630 non obfuscated e-mail
addresses in the /authors/00whois.xml file. I'm not sure this can or
should be changed, but it makes CPAN authors an easy target.
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