From: Fred H. Schlesinger (fred@schlesingers.net)
Date: Thu Sep 22 2005 - 19:20:58 PDT
Restrict the archives to list members. That way the robots can't troll
there because it requires a login.
Are you listening, Arthur??
-----Original Message-----
From: Ryan Gill [mailto:rmgill@mindspring.com]
Sent: Thursday, September 22, 2005 5:17 PM
To: Military Vehicles Mailing List
Subject: Re: [MV] VERY VERY OLD postings to this list
At 9:18 PM +0100 9/22/05, packhow75 wrote:
>
>I put a posting on this forum 5 years ago on behalf of a friend about
vehicle spares.. I am still getting people emailing me in reply... not
MEMBERS of this forum, but people who trawled up my email address on a
search and didnt look to see how old the post was.
Do a search on rmgill@mindspring.com on google. You'll get stuff I've posted
going back to 1993 or so. It's kind of a standard problem of posting on the
internet.
The archives of the info from the list are pretty nice, but the problem as
you see is that people can read those and grab e-mail addresses. More often,
the bad problems result from what are known as robots or spiders crawling
and harvesting e-mail addresses for spam. Given how I posted on Usenet back
in the day, I've receive tons of spam every day. Kind of goes with the
territory.
>
>Is it possible to delete / remove these old postings ?
Up to the List Admin. We might be able to get them to munge the e-mail
addresses on the arcives.
>My alternatives are to change my email address... which I would prefer not
to do.
>
>Any suggestions ?
1. Get a better spam filter to weed out the typical spam.
2. Post to the list with a different e-mail address if you chose to change
it.
The problem with #2 is that even if you change your e-mail address, all it
takes is one nasty employee at your ISP to sell the complete list of email
accounts to a spammer and your new e-mail addy is out there. I've got one
I've not used for a single email and I receive spam on it daily.
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