On Mon, 16 Jul 2001, Jeff Morriss wrote:
>
>
> Guy Harris wrote:
> >
> > > It's a sad, sad day when I have to request this, but: could someone
> > > change my email address in the AUTHORS file to be:
> > >
> > > morriss[AT]pobox.com
> > >
> > > instead of that which is in the From: line in this email?
> > >
> > > I ask because for the first time in 3 years, I just got SPAM to this
> > > account (and AFAIK ethereal.com is the only web address where my email
> > > address is shown).
> >
> > As far as I know, the list of authors on the Web site isn't generated
> > automatically from the AUTHORS file; I'll update the Web site to change
> > your address (perhaps we should just change the *entire* authors list to
> > do that) - should we also change the AUTHORS file?
>
> Probably should also change AUTHORS file; it's accessible to (very)
> aggressive email address hunters:
>
> http://www.ethereal.com/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/ethereal/AUTHORS?rev=1.298&content-type=text/x-cvsweb-markup
>
> Also, it's fine with me to keep my current email address IFF the @'s are
> changed to something else...
I think we should change the AUTHORS file (and man page) as well. Email
harvesters crawl through the site on a regular basis. I'd hate to just
hand everyone's address over to them.
FWIW, I've been working on making the web site more spam-retardant over
the past few months (I'm a bit embarassed that I missed the AUTHORS list,
though). So far I've done the following:
Obscured the mailing list addresses on the web site.
Installed Sugarplum (http://www.devin.com/sugarplum/)
Enabled MHonArc's address obscurifier (which is a bit incomplete)
Enabled Postfix's teergrubing features
Enhanced Mailman's subject line checking
The strategy seems to be working so far - the few messages that make it
past Sugarplum (usually) get tagged by Mailman.