Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Message-ID: <3F16F8CF.A1BD9F59@dessent.net> Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2003 12:28:15 -0700 From: Brian Dessent Organization: My own little world... X-Accept-Language: en,en-US MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Spammers watching this user forum References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Todd Bowden wrote: > > Just received an email from an email address that only could of received > my address from this user list. > > My address was only created a couple weeks ago for the sole purpose of > emailing this user-list. Might there be a way to > hide peoples email addresses and just use their alias names instead of > publishing them on the user list thread? Uh, it's called a public mailing list. You should never be surprised to receive spam on an email address you use to post to a ML, that's just how the world works. Use a throwaway account if it bothers you. I also suggest SpamAssassin. Brian -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/