Re: gEDA-user: Spam: address harvesting from archives

[Steve Meier <smeier@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I havn't seen spam comming through the list server. I presume the issue
is email addresses being included in the archives as well as being
broadcast through the standard list emails.

Can email addresses be automatically obfuscated at the list server side?

Steve Meier


On Wed, 2005-09-07 at 08:48 -0700, Samuel A. Falvo II wrote:
> On 9/7/05, Evan Lavelle <eml-geda@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > At the client? I've already got spam software here. This problem needs
> > to be handled by the list, not by the client.
> 
> Yes, I agree.  It is grossly irresponsible to just assume that spam
> fixes itself entirely at the client.  45% of global network traffic is
> spam, and it takes resources to route all that traffic.  Resources
> that takes energy to power.  Resources that could be better devoted
> towards routing real traffic.  Resources that cost ISPs some $20,000
> or more PER MONTH.  Imagine purchasing a DS3 circuit from your local
> ISP, only to get some 20Mbps usable throughput on an otherwise 45Mbps
> link.  That's one awfully expensive pair of 10-base-T ethernet cables.
>  Or, to bring things a bit closer to home, investing in a RONJA, and
> getting only 3 to 4Mbps usable data throughput because the rest is
> taken up by spam.
> 
> What a waste.
> 
> Stop spam at the source, not at the destination.
>