FWIW, I (and I know many others on this list) have a seperate address
that piclist (and microchip notifications and SDCC stuff) go to.

I receive no spam on this account, except the stuff that comes directly
through SDCC-DEVEL (which is little) or the piclist itself (which is
very nearly nil, especially considering the list volume)

I imagine that Google makes it very difficult to harvest email from
their online groups (ie, cannot request more than one or two messages a
second, ban known robots, examine and ban suspicious patterns of usage,
etc).

It's much easier to get a real news account and harvest from there.  The
Piclist is not mirrored to a regular newsgroup that has wide
distribution, so this doesn't affect us (I believe a few people mirror
it to their personal news servers, but they are not widely distributed)

In the end, I don't believe any action is necessary unless it does
become a problem later.  Of course, once the piclist emails get added to
one spammer's list, the cat is out of the bag so to speak, so prevention
is worthwhile - but I'm not going to spend any time on it.  I can change
my address and re-subscribe  :-)

-Adam

Peter L. Peres wrote:

>On Sat, 8 Feb 2003, Josh Koffman wrote:
>
>*>The basic concern is that if the messages aren't filtered correctly, all
>*>of our email addresses end up on the open internet, which can result in
>*>spam in your mailbox. Does this newsgroup censor the email addresses of
>*>the posters?
>
>Yes, lamely. as in plp@bogus.actcom.co.il I would take 10 minutes to
>devise a script that reaps addresses from this, and I am not an expert.
>Incidentally the amount of spam I see here has doubled or tripled in the
>last 2-3 months.
>
>Peter
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