1). I discuss things within these lists that I don't want my clients to be able to search and read.
2). We discuss the specifics of our security approaches, how our VPS systems work, the effectiveness of certain approaches, our relationships with Verio, and common vulnerabilities within our unique hosting setting. So why wouldn't a spammer or hacker want to waste their time combing through these archives??
As far as the notion that reconstituting addresses from a whopping two whole headers is too much effort for someone to go through... I think that's entirely misguided. The most valuable of ANY direct marketing databases (and that's what a spammer's database of email addresses is) is a clean and highly targeted list. And getting a few hundred (or more) administrative contacts of technical professionals that are all using the same platform and same vendor for hosting. Well that's a highly targeted list.
I think publicly archiving this list at all is a really stupid idea. That's about as plain and kind as I can put it. It has the potential of undermining everything that this list stands for.
This will be my last post to this list. I can't afford to have these sorts of discussions out in the open and I most certainly can't afford to leave a permanent written record laying around.
Best regards, Patrick On Jun 25, 2005, at 3:53 AM, Godwin Stewart wrote:
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1On Fri, 24 Jun 2005 18:27:19 -0500, Rae French <rfrench@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:If you follow the From: line and the In-reply-to: line, you can put together my email address.How many spammers are going to put these disjointed pieces of information together to create an e-mail address when there are other areas from where they can just slurp up e-mail addresses displayed in the clear - when theydon't create them out of their own (albeit limited) imagination?Having an e-mail address that can be reconstituted by glueing together bitsfrom 2 different headers is *not* a problem. Really not a problem. - -- G. Stewart - gstewart@xxxxxxxxxxx BASIC: A programming language. Related to certain social diseases in that those who have it will not admit it in polite company. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFCvQ2WK5oiGLo9AcYRAp2YAJ4jGLZgqrMATW1dw741pvo/443TzACffFSM 5e+c5PfoAL/ihyvahenyOAg= =CGYX -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ====================================================================== This is <vps-mail@xxxxxxxxxxxx> <http://www.perlcode.org/lists/> Before posting a question, please search the archives (see above URL).
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