From: owner-alloy-digest@smoe.org (alloy-digest) To: alloy-digest@smoe.org Subject: alloy-digest V9 #48 Reply-To: alloy@smoe.org Sender: owner-alloy-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-alloy-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk X-To-Unsubscribe: Send mail to "alloy-digest-request@smoe.org" X-To-Unsubscribe: with "unsubscribe" as the body. alloy-digest Thursday, April 29 2004 Volume 09 : Number 048 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: Alloy: Smoe now Googled [Brian Clayton ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 28 Apr 2004 10:55:11 -0700 From: Brian Clayton Subject: Re: Alloy: Smoe now Googled On Tuesday 27 April 2004 07:58, Andy Venables wrote: > Now I know why I'm suddenly getting a load of spam... > > Google has finally discovered smoe.org... a curse on whoever submitted > the URL!! It's not a matter of Google discovering smoe.org, but of a spammer's webcrawler finding it and plucking all the nice, ripe email addresses from it.... Which is why it is NEVER a good idea to archive ANY mailing list on the web without removing or heavily camouflaging the email addresses. Sadly, the damage has been done. I know that I'll be retiring my current email address soon, since the spammers are evading the spam filters more often now (192 spams slipped through today) and I can never erase all trace of my address. It's a shame, since I've had it since the late 80s, but this is the Internet we live in today. BC ------------------------------ End of alloy-digest V9 #48 **************************