| Eclipse news and/or Bugzilla harveted by spammers [message #197287] |
Tue, 01 March 2005 16:47  |
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Originally posted by: eclipse.rizzoweb.com
Cross-post intentional; I'm trying to reach a broad audience of the
newsgroup community.
The past couple of weeks I've started to received an increase in spam to
my email address that I ONLY use for Eclipse newsgroups and Bugzilla. I
am wondering if anyone else has noticed this.
Also, what steps are taken by the management of those forums to prevent
this kind of harvesting? I know about the rudimentary user/password
required to access them, but I also notice that everyone appears to get
the same user and password combination which may not be enough.
Eric
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| Re: Eclipse news and/or Bugzilla harveted by spammers [message #197305 is a reply to message #197287] |
Tue, 01 March 2005 18:02  |
 Eclipse Webmaster
Messages: 607353
Registered: July 2009 |
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Please continue this thread in the eclipse.foundation group exclusively,
as it's the most appropriate for this topic. Thanks.
Bugzilla has recently been upgraded to the latest version; prior to
this, e-mail addresses weren't being munged and were easily gathered by
spambots. Even with the new release, the e-mail addresses are only
obfuscated by replacing the '@' character with @ , hardly a
complicated algorithm to circumvent.
As for the newsgroups, I do recommend spam-proofing your e-mail address.
I'm not sure to which extent someone is willing to configure newsgroup
and http bots for authentication, but it's not complicated.
I will create myself a new e-mail alias to test if these measures are
enough. I'll keep you posted.
Denis
Eric Rizzo wrote:
> Cross-post intentional; I'm trying to reach a broad audience of the
> newsgroup community.
>
> The past couple of weeks I've started to received an increase in spam to
> my email address that I ONLY use for Eclipse newsgroups and Bugzilla. I
> am wondering if anyone else has noticed this.
> Also, what steps are taken by the management of those forums to prevent
> this kind of harvesting? I know about the rudimentary user/password
> required to access them, but I also notice that everyone appears to get
> the same user and password combination which may not be enough.
>
> Eric
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