Preventing spammers from infiltrating the Red Hat mailing lists

[Brian Pepple]

On Wed, 2005-04-13 at 16:53 -0400, William M. Quarles wrote:
> Why, changing my e-mail address to read walrus bellsouth.net on the Red 
> Hat site is too challenging for you?  At least it fools a stupid 
> computer looking for it.  Although I agree that when the archives 
> completely delete e-mail addresses than it is useless, but the archives 
> that I have contacted about that say that they have to because they get 
> daily requests from people to completely remove even obfuscated e-mail 
> addresses.
> 
> Look into the Gmane encryption, it is a worthwhile solution to the news 
> spider problem.  And it doesn't inhibit the functioning of the mailing 
> list whatsoever.  If you don't use Gmane the only reason why you would 
> care is because it keeps the spam spiders away, and that's a good thing 
> to care about.

Could you please stop this discussion?  As far as I can tell, this has
nothing to do with development of Fedora.

Refer to:
http://fedora.linux.duke.edu/wiki/PostIsOffTopic

/B
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Brian Pepple <bdpepple at ameritech.net>

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