[Xerte] Anti Spam

[Paul Swanson]

If you view the html source in the archives, you won't find your email
address. What shows as your.name at yourDomain is the text part of a
mailto: link. The actual email address in the mailto: code just points
back to the archives. Spambots look at the html source for mailto: or
your.name at yourDomain to get email addresses. There is also a meta tag on
those pages: <META NAME="robots" CONTENT="index,nofollow"> So I don't
think this is really the cause of an increase in Jeremy's spam. I
haven't noticed an increase in my spam.

 

We have a spam filter, but my spam report doesn't indicate that I
receive very much. Maybe Jeremy's spam filter is not functioning, or he
doesn't have one at all?

 

From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
[mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Julian Tenney
Sent: Tuesday, July 21, 2009 12:33 PM
To: Xerte discussion list
Subject: RE: [Xerte] Anti Spam

 

It'll break our own search engine.

 

I didn't think your email ever showed up in the archives anyway?

 

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From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk on behalf of Patrick Lockley
Sent: Tue 21/07/2009 17:18
To: Xerte discussion list
Subject: RE: [Xerte] Anti Spam

I'll ask the sysadmin people.

 

From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
[mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Jeremy
Hopkins
Sent: 21 July 2009 17:01
To: Xerte discussion list
Subject: RE: [Xerte] Anti Spam

 

If you add a robots.txt file to your lists sub domain here:

 

http://lists.nottingham.ac.uk/robots.txt

 

and add the following to it:

 

User-agent: * Disallow: /

 

That will keep the search engines out, but that will mean the content is
not searchable via those engines.

 

As I said, I do not wish to moan... but as things are it's only a matter
of time before the Viagra salesmen start pushing their wares to all your
subscribers L.

 

Jeremy

 

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From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
[mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Patrick
Lockley
Sent: 21 July 2009 16:55
To: Xerte discussion list
Subject: RE: [Xerte] Anti Spam

 

Maybe it's the google search widget for the list?

 

From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
[mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Jeremy
Hopkins
Sent: 21 July 2009 16:52
To: xerte at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
Subject: [Xerte] Anti Spam

 

Hello, 

 

I have started receiving spam since joining the Xerte mailing list, that
may be coincidence, or it is possible they got my address from another
source, but, regardless of that I I see my mail address is indexed in
google, the only precaution being  to replace @ with "at".

 

Personally I do not think that is enough, it is such a common trick any
self respecting spammer would harvest those and take a punt on them
being a mail address.

 

Is it possible to remove the domain from the addresses, add some more
text to the address, or drop the list in favour of a forum?

 

Sorry to be a whinge.

 

Jeremy

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