email harvesting by spammers
| From: | Jelte Werkhoven | 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==