Re: VMs: Administrivia: Spam and the archive

["Jeff" <jeff@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I wondered why I suddenly started getting hundreds of spam emails!

Grrrrrr!!!! I have attempted to keep this address clean. Luckily I have
written my own anti-spam program so it won't be too much hard work. Just a
little annoying.

No harm done though.

Jeff


----- Original Message -----
From: "Larry Roux" <lroux@xxxxxxx>
To: <vms-list@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: 21 January 2004 23:42
Subject: Re: VMs: Administrivia: Spam and the archive


> Thanks Jim!  No problem.  If I could go a week without some mistake then I
could pick on you.  But then, S.U.'s mail goes through a pretty good spam
filter so who would I be to complain anyways!  <grin>
>
>
> ******************************
> Larry Roux
> Syracuse University
> lroux@xxxxxxx
> *******************************
> >>> jim@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx 01/21/04 17:35 PM >>>
> Petr called to my attention that email addresses were no longer
> being anonymized in the mailing list archive; he noticed this by
> being spammed at a hitherto "clean" address.  It turns out that
> when I changed to a new computer I forgot to bring along the mhonarc
> initialization file that put this spam-guard in place.  I'm rebuilding
> and uploading the archive now, but thought you should know that if
> you've posted to the list since the beginning of December 2003 your
> email address has probably been harvested.  It will still be available
> in Google's cache until the next time their web spiders run through
> the archive.
>
> Sorry for any inconvenience and spam increase this might cause you.
> --
> Jim Gillogly
>
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