Re: Spam because of this list

2003-10-07 Thread Svenn Are Bjerkem
On Monday 06 October 2003 21:12, kosh wrote: > As I already pointed out the existing email harvesters already do this by > default. You are not defeating anything. I think you overestimate how much > time it takes to parse stuff like that. It problems takes more time to > gather the data over the n

Re: Spam because of this list

2003-10-07 Thread Svenn Are Bjerkem
On Monday 06 October 2003 20:26, Antiphon wrote: > You could also munge the @ sign and around it as I said in the previous > example. However, using only the entity way I outlined above would be more > convenient for someone like you who wants clickability. It would be even better to use java.grap

Re: Spam because of this list

2003-10-07 Thread Svenn Are Bjerkem
On Monday 06 October 2003 20:00, kosh wrote: > If I have to figure it out then I won't reply. I get thousands of email a > day and reply to some of them to help people. There are so many that I > could reply to anyone that makes my life just a little more difficult will > not get a reply. Also do y

Re: Spam because of this list

2003-10-07 Thread Svenn Are Bjerkem
On Monday 06 October 2003 19:47, Antiphon wrote: > Munging does not mean only removing the domain. It can be simply a matter > of making [EMAIL PROTECTED] into joe at user dot or dot jp. That's not too > hard for someone to figure out. A proper regular expression can recognize the dots and ats and

Re: Spam because of this list

2003-10-07 Thread Svenn Are Bjerkem
On Monday 06 October 2003 19:46, Johannes Zarl wrote: > Well, that doesn't neccesarily mean that the email-addresses must not be > munged. I don't know if this is supported by any mailing-list software, > but how about just munging the addresses in the archive? I guess > address-collectors don't su

Re: Spam because of this list

2003-10-07 Thread Svenn Are Bjerkem
On Monday 06 October 2003 19:16, kosh wrote: > I disagree with this idea and I don't want the addresses munged. It is very > useful being able to reply to someone and I will just hit reply to reply to > someone. If the mail bounces I won't waste any more time contacting them. > Overall not one list

Re: [OT] Re: Spam because of this list

2003-10-07 Thread Chris Cheney
On Tue, Oct 07, 2003 at 04:35:12AM +0200, Thomas Ritter wrote: > Am Dienstag, 7. Oktober 2003 03:30 schrieb Antiphon: > > I don't have any faith in anti-spam legislation. There's no way laws can > > stop spam. It's like pornography, religions, drugs and guns. The more you > > try to regulate it, th

Re: [OT] Re: Spam because of this list

2003-10-06 Thread Antiphon
You prove my point :-D Enough people will always want drugs, pr0n, guns, religion, and spam products that you'll never be able to stop them from getting (or attempting to get) it, including money from former Nigerian vice presidents. None of which is to say that these five things are similar i

Re: [OT] Re: Spam because of this list

2003-10-06 Thread Thomas Ritter
Am Dienstag, 7. Oktober 2003 03:30 schrieb Antiphon: > I don't have any faith in anti-spam legislation. There's no way laws can > stop spam. It's like pornography, religions, drugs and guns. The more you > try to regulate it, the less you'll succeed at stopping it. Spam is a > problem created by te

Re: [OT] Re: Spam because of this list

2003-10-06 Thread Antiphon
Well, I'm kind of bummed out about the whole thing now. Chris's point is correct that there are other places where debian-kde is archived and that getting everyone to change en masse would be difficult to do. I don't have any faith in anti-spam legislation. There's no way laws can stop spam. It

[OT] Re: Spam because of this list

2003-10-06 Thread Michael Peddemors
Again, as mentioned by many people, if you don't want Spam, use and ISP service that provides Spam blocking.. If you can't use an ISP with that service, buy a POP address from any of the ISP's that sell just POP mailboxes with full Anti-Spam features.. (Usually about $5/month) This is an issue

Re: Spam because of this list

2003-10-06 Thread Doug Holland
On Mon 06 Oct 2003 2:15 am, Antiphon wrote: > I use a free pop email service and am finding that this address is > continually bombarded by swen virus spam because the debian servers do not > munge addresses. > > Is this going to be implemented anytime soon? My pop server only has a 6mb > limit and

Re: Spam because of this list

2003-10-06 Thread Chris Cheney
On Mon, Oct 06, 2003 at 05:07:31PM -0400, Antiphon wrote: > Wow, I didn't know that this list is also a newsgroup. Are saying then > that nothing should be done? That seems rather defeatist. Google Groups > makes some efforts with partial hex encoding (move your mouse over the > mailto links) an

Re: Spam because of this list

2003-10-06 Thread Antiphon
Wow, I didn't know that this list is also a newsgroup. Are saying then that nothing should be done? That seems rather defeatist. Google Groups makes some efforts with partial hex encoding (move your mouse over the mailto links) and I believe they also take steps to limit large numbers of reques

Re: Spam because of this list

2003-10-06 Thread Chris Cheney
On Mon, Oct 06, 2003 at 11:16:57AM -0600, kosh wrote: > On Monday 06 October 2003 09:19, Antiphon wrote: > > > It is bad practice that the Debian listservs do not munge addresses. I > > realise that munging may not be implemented because people like to be able > > to respond to old threads private

Re: Spam because of this list

2003-10-06 Thread Iknatius
The same problem here :( Iknatius     Christof Hurschler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I have the same problem, and doesn't seem to be getting any better. Are there really that many infected computers out there??? I'm having to leave my computer on all day to run swendleter every three hours,

Re: Spam because of this list

2003-10-06 Thread kosh
On Monday 06 October 2003 12:59, Antiphon wrote: > It looks like you're misunderstanding me. I am only talking about when > posting the archives on the Web, not via e-mail. With email, you'd be able > to hit your reply just the same. > > While it is possible to get around encoding, since few sites

Re: Spam because of this list

2003-10-06 Thread Antiphon
Here's a URL for those interested in other techniques to encode addresses: http://www.robertgraham.com/tools/mailtoencoder.html On Monday 06 October 2003 14:26, Antiphon wrote: > Your example undermines your argument since no script could be written to > get around all of the possible variations o

Re: Spam because of this list

2003-10-06 Thread Antiphon
It looks like you're misunderstanding me. I am only talking about when posting the archives on the Web, not via e-mail. With email, you'd be able to hit your reply just the same. While it is possible to get around encoding, since few sites do it, it is not worth it for spammers to try to get ar

Re: Spam because of this list

2003-10-06 Thread kosh
On Monday 06 October 2003 12:26, Antiphon wrote: > Your example undermines your argument since no script could be written to > get around all of the possible variations on the simple way I outlined. > > Good munging uses HTML entities to encode the relevant addresses so that > each person's address

Re: Spam because of this list

2003-10-06 Thread Antiphon
Your example undermines your argument since no script could be written to get around all of the possible variations on the simple way I outlined. Good munging uses HTML entities to encode the relevant addresses so that each person's address is never actually displayed inside the HTML which is w

Re: Spam because of this list

2003-10-06 Thread kosh
On Monday 06 October 2003 11:47, Antiphon wrote: > Munging does not mean only removing the domain. It can be simply a matter > of making [EMAIL PROTECTED] into joe at user dot or dot jp. That's not too > hard for someone to figure out. If I have to figure it out then I won't reply. I get thousands

Re: Spam because of this list

2003-10-06 Thread Christof Hurschler
I have the same problem, and doesn't seem to be getting any better. Are there really that many infected computers out there??? I'm having to leave my computer on all day to run swendleter every three hours, otherwise my mailbox also overfills! Chris On Monday 06 October 2003 11:48, Leopold Pa

Re: Spam because of this list

2003-10-06 Thread Antiphon
Munging does not mean only removing the domain. It can be simply a matter of making [EMAIL PROTECTED] into joe at user dot or dot jp. That's not too hard for someone to figure out. On Monday 06 October 2003 13:16, kosh wrote: > On Monday 06 October 2003 09:19, Antiphon wrote: > > It is bad prac

Re: Spam because of this list

2003-10-06 Thread Johannes Zarl
> I disagree with this idea and I don't want the addresses munged. It is > very useful being able to reply to someone and I will just hit reply to > reply to someone. Well, that doesn't neccesarily mean that the email-addresses must not be munged. I don't know if this is supported by any mailin

Re: Spam because of this list

2003-10-06 Thread kosh
On Monday 06 October 2003 09:19, Antiphon wrote: > It is bad practice that the Debian listservs do not munge addresses. I > realise that munging may not be implemented because people like to be able > to respond to old threads privately but simply providing a mechanism as > simple as spelling out

Re: Spam because of this list

2003-10-06 Thread Antiphon
Thanks for that but I haven't had problems deleting the messages since KMail has some POP3 filters that provide for this. The thing is, I do not have access to a machine that can run 24/7 and delete them for me, either through something like this or spamassasin or through mail client filtering.

Re: Spam because of this list

2003-10-06 Thread Leopold Palomo Avellaneda
A Dilluns 06 Octubre 2003 10:15, Antiphon va escriure: > I use a free pop email service and am finding that this address is > continually bombarded by swen virus spam because the debian servers do not > munge addresses. Try this, http://www.hashref.com/prj/swendeleter/ maybe it can help you. Re

Spam because of this list

2003-10-06 Thread Antiphon
I use a free pop email service and am finding that this address is continually bombarded by swen virus spam because the debian servers do not munge addresses. Is this going to be implemented anytime soon? My pop server only has a 6mb limit and since I leave messages on the server for pseudo-IMA