[Evolution] Re: What a good source of email addresses to spam... Why?

[Robert Harrison <robsta bigfoot com>]

Erm. Well if you look at your user preferences page, presumably
generated by the software, note that the software is called mailman and
in my humble opinion is pretty good mailing list manager software, then
you'll find the option to keep your subscription address private and
thus not shown on the list of subscribers.

Yes that is a trivial code to break but then so is:

user NOSPAMmyhost mydomain com

as are other such examples.

Anyway, I think it is safe to say that it is the subscribers
responsibility to protect themselves from spam in this case.

Robs.

> Friends

> I have been lurking on this list for a long time, ever since I was
> looking around for an email client (but I settled on gnus).  Anyhow I
> was not reading the list so i am unsubscribing, hence I am poking
> around http://lists.helixcode.com and I found
> http://lists.helixcode.com/mailman/roster/evolution.

> A lovely list of every subscribers email address...

>      weskinard at home.com 
>      westbrook at swestbrook.org 
>      wfromoz at bellsouth.net 
>      willh at neverworld.com 
>      william at adextra.com 
>      wilson at coms.com 
>      wingman at vilstal.net 
>      (wkp1013 at hotmail.com) 
>      worik at noggon.com 
>      (wpascoe at realmedia.com) 
>      wstearns at pobox.com 
>      wudell at unl.edu 
>      x86 at lemont.rice.iit.edu 

> I think that that is a trivial code to break.  And why have it?  Why
> should the list of subscribers be available?

> Anyhow, I thought I would complain.