Volunteering for OSS == Sign Up for Spam?

Posted by Cliff on Monday April 26, 2004 @10:54PM from the drawbacks-for-web-accessible-mailinglist-archives dept.

bckspc asks: "I've been getting pounded by spam lately, so did a Google search on my email address to see where it might appear on the Web. To my horror, it turned up several times in an archive of a Gnome listserv for a project I briefly participated in. While the email address is visibly obscured on the Web pages, it is quite intact in the HTML code. I emailed the list admin about obscuring or removing my email address, but was curtly dismissed. I'm a relative newbie and the experience soured me on participating in other OSS projects. How to Slashdot users deal with this? Must I set up disposable email accounts for every list?"

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thats not what im worried about! by SkunkPussy · 2004-04-26 23:01 · Score: 5, Funny

When I searched for my name, it was more the questions i'd answered geekily on some debian list about 4 or 5 years ago that concerned me. theres loads of them!
And the debian lists are very well linked to its been hard for me to pursuade google to give higher priority to my own website, where I can make out I'm not a geek :-)

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