Re: [Sheflug] Spam

[james mears <james [at] xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Alex

> Just as a warning, some dumb spammer is running a harvester over
> http://krom.meiring.org.uk/sheflug/mailarchive/, advertising some
> peak-rate phone number.

Yes I have had a mail from him/her.

> It's supposedly from "peter [at] u.kestates.co.uk" (the domain is detagged; I
> don't necessarily believe it's a valid address anyhow), but is some guy
> on a Tiscali dial-up.
>
> How do I know he's crawling the archive? Well, he's even sending mail to
> the 'addresses' in the References: line :(
>
> Would it be possible to de-robot-friendly the mail archive? I know it's
> a pain in the ass, but I would suspect the problem would only get worse.
> I can provide suitable scripts/other help if required.


You would have to talk to Richard and Pieter bit it is a good idea to stop 
this.

James


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