[OT]Re: Not happy...
[OT]Re: Not happy...
- Subject: [OT]Re: Not happy...
- From: Andrew Oliver <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 14 Dec 2004 11:12:24 -0800
Get with it.
10 years ago there might have been some expectation of privacy when it comes
to email addresses. That went out the window years ago.
Nowadays email addresses are more like public record. There are sooooo many
ways a spammer can get your email address that this site isn't going to make
one iota of difference. Trawling web pages is so 1990's. You're more likely
to get spam from some trojan that walked a colleague's LookOut (oops, I mean
Outlook) address book than you are from a web crawler.
Until the internet community and maybe even governments (urgh!) get their
act together you're not going to stop it.
Move on.
Andrew
:)
On 12/14/04 10:49 AM, "Martin Orpen" <email@hidden> wrote:
> on 14/12/04 6:31 pm, Chris Espinosa wrote:
>
>> First, I don't recall seeing your original post. If it had a cryptic
>> title like "Not Happy..." and was posted to the list, it's likely that
>> no administrator saw it.
>
> It had the cryptic title of: "List Archives & email addresses"
>
>> Second, just because their email doesn't answer confirmation requests
>> at the moment doesn't mean that they didn't enable it for a few minutes
>> to confirm, then disable it again. There's no way for us to detect and
>> prevent that (other than to send y'all very annoying confirmation
>> requests periodically)
>
> They only have two instructions on the site:
>
> 1. Subscribe email@hidden to the mailing list.
>
> 2. Mail-Archive does not respond to "confirmation requests". List
> administrators should add the subscription such that a confirmation is not
> required.
>
> There are at least 6 Apple lists subscribed to the site. The three that I
> use all seem to have been subscribed on 28 November.
>
>> Third, their site now has [EMAIL PROTECTED] in the place of all email
>> addresses in their posted messages, in conformance with Apple policy.
>
> Which I have no problem with...
>
> The problem is the HTML form that is generated when you read a message that
> returns your name and email with every page request.
>
> Surely that *isn't* in conformance with Apple policy?
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