Re: [FreeDNS] Address harvesting

[Christiaan Keet <hostmaster@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Aug 01, 2006 at 06:09:26PM +0200, Colin Alston wrote:
> For about the thousandth time now, my email address has been harvested 
> from the ZA NiC FreeDNS list.
> 
> I'd like to know how this is happening and if there would be any steps 
> done to prevent this happening in future, as this seems to be 
> happening far too often. I'm fine if people receive a mail as a result 
> of being subscribed to the list, but I'm worried its being archived 
> somewhere without masking the sender addresses.

The mailing list archive lives on the website (at http://www.za.net/freedns/ 
it's linked from the front page). Until recently it did indeed not mask any 
email addresses, which allowed this kind of harvesting. You'll see that it 
does so now though. Apologies for any inconvenience caused.

- Christiaan

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