Re: The ..... worm

On Thu, Aug 28, 2003 at 12:17:21AM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> expect <expect(at)ihubbell(dot)com> writes:
> > Other lists I subscribe to do not suffer from the spam plague in the way this
> > list does. I wish I'd known that before signing on rather than after.
>
> [ raised eyebrow ] I subscribe to many mailing lists. On most of the
> other lists I have to apply spam filtering to what arrives, but the PG
> lists are very nearly spam-free (thanks to Marc's hard work). I dunno
> what you are complaining about.

It is a valid complaint. The fact was that the archives (at least on
archives.postgresql.org) kept the email addresses verbatim, right in front
of the eyes of any spammer's web crawler.

Fortunately, Cristoph Dalitz's repeated complaints have finally caused
Marc to reconfigure MHonArc so it won't publish the addresses.

You are right in that there is very little spam coming from the lists
themselves...

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Alvaro Herrera (<alvherre[a]dcc.uchile.cl>)
We take risks not to escape from life, but to prevent life escaping from us.