[MLB-WIRELESS] Ack, dag nabbit! the mailing list is ruined my emailaddress.

[Rowan Wainwright-Smith]

I, too, have noticed an increase in spam, but nothing too hideous....

However, as a programmer, i have the code here, that will fix the archive and
make all the e-mail addresses into _absolutely_ anything at all..... if the
powers that be within the organization would like to use this product, then they
can feel free to contact me. Of course, some small mods may be required to the
code depending on the platform the archive is located on, and to automate the
process, but nothing major!

I think, that as an organisation, wireless.org.au, has an obligation to protect
its members (and members of its mailing lists) from this type of thing. This is
covered under privacy legislation, and the group should look at this VERY
carefully, or find ourselves left _WIDE_ open legally with respect to privacy
issues.

Steven, Tyson, et al, I suggest that you look into this as a matter of the utmost
urgency, before somebody gets really nasty about it.

It should also be noted, that most mailer-daemons (windoze based ones) have the
ability to protect the identities (e-mail addresses) of its subscribers, its just
a question of finding the setting for it.

Rowan

dwayne wrote:

> hey Andrew I thought I'd send *this* bit to the list but feel free to
> continue this offlist if you like.
> Just occurred to me that pobox.com might be useful to others.
>
> Andrew Tiltman wrote:
> >
> > > Andrew Tiltman wrote:
> > >
> > > > Generally I would bitch and moan about wanting compensation (how the
> > > > could you compensate such a loss? ideas anyone? ;))
> > >
> > > Offer your services, and that of your hammer, should anyone find out
> > > where the spammers live?
> >
> > I'm afraid that its impossible to catch the spammers, or have any impact on
> > what they do... if it was possible they wouldnt exist ;)
>
> This, of course, is blindingly obvious, yes  :)
>
> > Theres nothing that can be done other than getting a new email address and
> > reprinting boxes of business cards, not to mention the ones people already
> > have
>
> Ow ow ow.
>
> pobox.com catches nearly all spam and flags 98% of the spam I get as
> [may be spam - pobox] in the subject line. I hardly ever get something
> not obviously spam before I click on it.
>
> Very cheap, been dwayne at pobox.com since 1994 or 1995. Since they
> started, basically.  And I get 500+ emails per day, and have been
> getting that volume since I got online in 91.
>
> Oh, and my email address has been on my webpages since 1993, and at one
> stage I had 5% of the net per month looking at my pages.  Oh, and I used
> to post to usenet under that address as well.
>
> So, it's been tested, I guess  :)
>
> Dwayne
>
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