[AccessD] Email spam risk <rant>

It would be nice to be able to turn off just the email listing or to
list an alternate email, I agree.

Charlotte Foust

-----Original Message-----
From: Francisco H Tapia [mailto:my.lists at verizon.net] 
Sent: Friday, January 31, 2003 8:42 AM
To: accessd at databaseadvisors.com
Subject: [AccessD] Email spam risk <rant>


Let me start with,  I think that the new MailMan engine is great, in
fact I'm subscribed on other lists that use this engine, and it's pretty
good, IIRC you can tell it now to block attachments thus overcomming one
of the shortcommings that the previous list had... :D, now I get to rant
:D

**Did you know that your email address is exposed for the AccessD
archives? Visit http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/roster/accessd
Yes this is because the default setting is to make your email visible on
the roster list.  No worries though it's not like you can't remove your
name from the list, but the principal is the same.  The system
autogenerates a password for you, since you don't know it when you click
on your email address it will send you the link and your system created
password in order to let you change you options and you password as
well.  Once in your user options go to the section labled Conceal
yourself from subscriber list. This in effect will hide your name from
the main roster page that is visible by any spam-bot picking up email
addresses.  True the email address is not displayed as
"email at server.com" but 'email at server.com" is not too tought for a
spam-bot to clean up... so if you don't like your email address listed
publicly out on the worldwideweb run dont walk to change your user
settings http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/roster/accessd

and by the look of things, hardly anyone cares or knows about this
vulnerability...

-Francisco
http://rcm.netfirms.com


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