Comments on: Is your email address safe from spam on news.mozilla.org?

By: angel

angel — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 17:26:01 +0000

i love you chris

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 10 Feb 2006 10:12:00 +0000

Look at the threads on the now obsolete netscape.public.mozilla.os2 since the time of the migration announcement and you will find that there exist newsreaders to which users are apparently married that permit only one news host to be used per account. These people don’t seem to be able to be bothered to try SeaMonkey or Thunderbird even for one newsgroup on the new system.

By: Ludovic Hirlimann

Ludovic Hirlimann — Fri, 10 Feb 2006 09:11:00 +0000

>The Bad.

How dod you expect the news administrator to know that it’s a MoFo decision not to propagate to the rest of usenet ? How can this information be easily found ?

>The Ugly

The bad thing about that, is that people posting to that mirrored news hierarchy expect people from the mozilla community to be able to read and answer their post which is not true.

Have you mailed that news admin ?

Regarding spam, once a spam bot will connect to giganews and scan the newsgroup the problem will arise. That can take month, but I’m sure it will come.

By: Mike

Mike — Fri, 10 Feb 2006 05:28:00 +0000

Or, you know, get Thunderbird, which has some pretty decent spam filtering. Honestly, I’ve given up trying to keep my email address secret. There’s little use. One slip and you might as well have not expended the effort in the first place. Not worth my time.

By: gatolandia

gatolandia — Fri, 10 Feb 2006 03:20:00 +0000

Exist bot for scan direction for newsgroup, and then the post with the real email is food for spammers.

The only temporal solution is add a recon word with is easy identificable for remove to an user for reply to an individual.

Perhaps it’s not problem from news.mozilla.org.

gato@gato.cl

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