LIST and RUNREV security

[Dave Cragg]

On 1 Feb 2007, at 20:03, Stephen Barncard wrote:

> I'm still getting an inordinate amount of SPAM from scumbags that  
> somehow harvested my special RUNREV email address. I only use this  
> address for my business with Runrev, so I can kill it if it gets  
> too much spam.
>
> Unfortunately, changing this email address will have to be done at  
> five or more places. My official RunRev address, the bug-list, the  
> two mail-lists, and the authorization for my Rev Space all use this  
> address.
>
> How can this happen? I thought our email addresses were sacrosanct  
> at Rev. Does my email address still get shown in plain view on the  
> Forum and Bugzilla sites?

One problem is that your email address is on the computers of all  
subscribers to the list. (I can see it right in front of me.) I hear  
enough about spyware to think it's not unlikely that at least one  
subscriber has been infected by something that harvests addresses  
from the local hard drive. I don't think there's much you can do  
about that.

Cheers
Dave