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Joe Wronski <jwronski@stillwatereng.net> writes:
>> Peter <plpeter2006@yahoo.com> writes:
>>> In any case, all piclist emails, in clear, are and have been online
>>> and searchable by search engines by means of the gmane web
>>> interface. The url is:
>>>
>>>    http://news.gmane.org/gmane.comp.hardware.microcontrollers.pic
>>>
>>> Note that all other lists archived on gmane are also affected, and
>>> there are hundreds or thousands. I am not going to count
>>> them. IMNSHO, something should be done about this, possibly admins
>>> contacting the gmane.org operator by email and discussing the
>>> problem.
>> Before doing so, you may wish to read the FAQ at
>> http://gmane.org/faq.php (the second last item).

I should say further (to Peter) that he should not have any expectation
that his email address is kept hidden. He has posted to a publicly
archived list (archived both at GMane and piclist.com) and one
requirement to do so is to give an email address identifying yourself.

Moreover, look at eg.

  http://www.piclist.com/techref/postbot.asp?by=3Dthread&id=3D[ADMIN]+Urgen=
t+-+list+emails+no+longer+cloaked+on+&w=3Dbody&tgt=3Dpost&at=3D201302140849=
47a#084947a

ZOMFGLOLBBQ, the piclist.com site is ideal for spam bots too!!!

However, it looks like this is easy to fix at GMane. Each list has an
"encrypt addresses" flag that can be turned on. See (pulled out of thin
air) http://news.gmane.org/gmane.linux.australia/ for an example of the
result. Presumably a moderator from here should get in contact with
Lars.

Also, you might want to read the careful writeup under the "Spam"
heading at

  http://gmane.org/about.php

and the (linked)

  http://gmane.org/tmda.php

which explains what this does.

>> Project Description:
>> I need a good programmer to write a program for me. I want a program=20
>> written that will scrape emails from specific websites/urls (easy)=20
>> then have these email address GEO targeted to automatically be input=20
>> into specific offers (affiliate offers) then auto click enter. I need=20
>> this done immediately. Traffic sent to offers must "look" as if it=20
>> came from site A, then to my site or from Google and then to my site.=20
>> More information once you bid.
>
> That one has a project budget of $250 - $750, with some requirements=20
> that I can't quite decipher.  I wonder if they would pay extra for=20
> attempts to de-obfuscate?

They definitely would not. The purchaser wants affiliate links; they
don't care where you get the email addresses from. An anti-obfuscation
scheme only becomes economically worthwhile for the spammer when
non-obfuscated emails are hard to find, which isn't currently
true. (*your* email might be hard to find, but the spammer doesn't know
that you are any more juicy a target than anyone else) (And you probably
aren't)

Rupert

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