Re: Email Addresses

Hi Steve! Thanks for the reply. You replied to me privately but then also posted on the list, so I'm cc'ing the list. Steve Yates wrote: > > I decided not to cc my post to you this time so here it is. :) Given the behavior of your mailer, and in the absense of address munging, I appreciate that ...it appears I will not be posting to PHP-WIN anymore... :-| > "Mark Filipak" wrote ... > > From both replies I assume that this list does not protect, hide, or > > munge email addresses > > I personally haven't been on a list that does. Usually the "to" > and/or "reply-to" is the list but the "from" is the author's e-mail > software. All other lists to which I subscribe -- all are non-UNIX related -- do address munging, even if the reply line coming from the responder includes a full email address. For example, to the best of my knowledge: "On Wed, 29 May 2002 22:21:22 -0500, filipak@mydomain.org wrote:" would be converted to something like this: "On Wed, 29 May 2002 22:21:22 -0500, filipak@myd...org wrote:" by the list management software (though I don't think Majordomo is that smart). > > And from Steve's reply, do I correctly infer that my posts and his > > are also going to a news server? > > Yes in fact that's how I'm posting. Via news.php.net. Ouch! That's exactly what I try to avoid. Oh well. I have recently changed email addresses and have been enjoying the lack of spam, but I guess that will soon change. It's only a transitional email account until I get my own server up. Then I will be seriously investigating how to avoid spam. I know people who have managed to hide their email accounts so well that they never get spam. I'll have to ask them how they accomplished that magic. One thing I know that they avoid is posting anything to a usenet group from the 'hidden' account, though they do post to email-based lists that do address munging. Ya'know. In the short time that I've been subscribed to questions@freebsd.org and most recently, to php-windows@lists.php.net I've been amazed by the amount of spam that manages to get to those lists and by the lack of concern for user's email addresses. I would have thought that the *NIX gurus would have worked things out better than anyone else, but what I'm finding is: that is not true at all! Thanks for the bandwidth. Unfortunately, as I wrote above, I don't think I'll be doing any posting to the list in the future. Ciao -- Mark