[Asterisk-Users] [OT] Mailing lists and spam

[Tilghman Lesher]

On Tuesday 04 March 2003 10:58 am, Steve Murphy wrote:
> I've proven to myself, via throw-away addresses, that individuals
> and robots sift thru archives and mailing list subscription lists,
> gathering addresses to sell on CD's to spammers. No list is immune,
> especially if it or its archives are available over the web. I've
> been spammed within a very short while of my address appearing on a
> posted message.

One comment on this:  one of NLUG's programmers has created a
very workable solution to this problem.  You can browse the NLUG
archives here:  http://www.nlug.org/mail/.  All email addresses are
obscured from bots by replacing them with PNG images.

-Tilghman