Hallo, Christian Klippel hat gesagt: // Christian Klippel wrote:
i just noticed something:
until my first post to pd-list today with my new mail @mamalala.net, i only got spam attempts to send to @mamalala.de ....
but an hour after my post, i start to get spam attempts to @mamalala.net !
so, in case that the list archive is misused to grab mail addresses, would it be possible to completely supress the "at some.domain"? probably the spammers know hot to make that into a real address...
pd-list is also archived on gmane.org. Quoting http://gmane.org/faq.php
Q: I figured out how to crack the address obfuscation in the web interface! You just replace "<at>" with "@"! You guys are obviously not 3l33+!
A: Er, yes. However, current accepted wisdom in the anti-spam community is that spam harvesting bots do not do even trivial unobfuscation, so nothing more than this trivial scheme is necessary. If that changes, the obfuscation scheme will change, too.
I'm not sure how valid this is.
another chance that i see is that someone on the list has an infected machine where the addresses might be harvested from (besides using it as spam zombie). probably the owner doesnt even know ...
Or maybe the owner *does* know and in fact only subscribed to the list to harvest addresses? How to fight that?
I've given up trying to hide my email address from websites. In the long run it just doesn't seem to work.
Ciao