Re: IMPORTANT: Email address removal request

On Sunday 13 July 2003 16:55, Gabor Hojtsy wrote: > >>Those lists you mention are not open for the public, they are > >>exclusively for inhouse use. But the messages you post, are public of > >>course (like this one), archived in public archives, available via news, > >>etc. So there would be no use of removing your email from our "safe > >>list" in relation with preventing you to get more spam. Remember that if > >>you post anything with any of your mail addresses to some public place, > >>then that email address will be available for spammers to collect... > > > > Maybe somewhere at php.net it should say that mailing lists are public > > and that spam bots can grab your email address. > > > > then you should be able to say after complains.. "We've told you.." > > > > just 1 out of 10000 ideas..... > > Saying that mailing lists are public would be something like warning > users that the computer is broadcasting their email addresses on the net > > :) [I guess you have seen these ads]. Yep.. I really like the one with the IP Address blah blah :) > Anybody can follow those > > instructions to subscribe to a mailing list, a crude person too, with > bad intentions. Sorry, forget about those people... That is the same like "going to a bank, you risk meeting > gunmen trying to rob the bank". That is not written to the banks door, > because it is obvious that gunmen can go in just like everybody else. > > The only non-obvious thing is our webmaster@php.net address, but the > only place it is disaplyed, we have a note on this: > http://php.net/support > > Goba .: Allowee