email harvesting by spammers

From: Date: Tue, 08 Jul 2003 09:02:43 +0000
Subject: email harvesting by spammers
Groups: php.mirrors 
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Dear webmaster, It seems email addresses are harvested by spambots either at your site or mirrors of your site. This URL www.php.net/backend/notes/cd/cd037b6261327c44 on your site features my email address. I found this URL sunsite.bilkent.edu.tr/pub/infosystems/phpweb/backend/notes/cd/cd037b6261327c44 by googling on my email address. It is a mirror of your site. I am not sure if the mail address was harvested at your site or at the mirror, but I would be most gratefull if you could look into it. For your info, I include the reply I received from the admin at the mirror site, Mustafa Akgul. thanks in advance, Jelte Werkhoven ==snip== It is a mirror of www.php.net. It would be much better to change it at > > Dear admin, > > This URL: > sunsite.bilkent.edu.tr/pub/infosystems/phpweb/backend/notes/cd/cd037b6261327c44 www.php.net/backend/notes/cd/cd037b6261327c44 Regards Mustafa Akgul > > on your site features my email adres prominently and for all to see. As this > attracts spam from spambots searching for email adresses, I would very much > appreciate it if you could remove the reference to my email or replace it > with an obfusciated version (e.g. jelte dot werkhoven at itfy dot com). > > thanks in advance, > > Jelte Werkhoven > ==snip==

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