Re: A note to Red Hat about spam.

[Richard Hebert <hebertrich yahoo com>]

> Mine may be a minority opinion, but I don't believe Red Hat can or should be
> held accountable for the inappropriate actions of a few a**holes. We can only
> hope that when their time comes, they will be blocked by that great firewall in
> the sky.
> 
> That said, when RH mail list traffic is archived to a public place, it would
> help if subscribers' literal addresses were first masked or altered in such a
> way as to make "mining" unproductive.
> 
> --Doc Savage

When i give my email address at a  web site ( RH's the only one who's got mine
that i know of ) I'm doing this with peace of mind.Im telling myself RH is
serious about keeping my stuff private.There wont be a problem.
Safekeeping my personal data like mail address name  user name and password
system description and packages,is im sure in their best interest.

Though putting the list somewhere accessible for their customers to 
browse through is a good idea,this seems also like a potential gold 
mine for spammers.

Can all the messages be filtered or somehow cleaned up of all private
email addresses ?

It's nice to get nasty with the spambots,but what about prevention ? 
Can a script be launched in their database to remove all private email 
addresses from the database? or replaced by fake ones ?

This is RH's responsibility. 
They do their best.This is a new problem to my knowledge.
I never had spam in Seawolf-list.This was my first too on Enigma-list.
It will be interresting to see how the folks at RH will react and 
solve this before it really gets to be a problem.


Richard Hebert


 
 

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