Email visible to all

[Andre Rodovalho]

Spam will come, whatever you do to avoid, it is impossible to not receive
"unwanted" messages. Specially if you have a old email account. You need to
spread your address in order to use, you can't trust all websites you
register will keep your address 100% "safe".

You have a gmail account, just set up some filters if spam starts to
bother...


2014-08-21 13:25 GMT-03:00 Richie Bloss <sneydblois at gmail.com>:

> Yeah, it's always great to get insulted when posting to Linix forum =
> "unlike you".
>
> If these are the hoops we are expected to jump thru in order to post to
> the Ubuntu mailing lists then count me out.
>
> This will be my last post to this list since apparently I will have to
> wait 2 & 1/2 years for it roll off the archive logs.
>
>  ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: sd <superduper3000 at outlook.com>
> Date: Thu, Aug 21, 2014 at 10:16 AM
> Subject: Re: Email visible to all
> To: lubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com
>
>
>  I also no dot like my email to be visible in the web mail list. However,
> unlike you, I looked and got informed first before I joined the mail list -
> then I created a funny email address at outlook.com (which you can see)
> that I use only for this list.
>
> Outlook.com blocked this email address once last year. I could see all my
> emails and receive emails from this list, but they did not allow me to send
> emails (so I could not respond). I  had to go one month over microsoft
> email support to get back access. They told me it was somehow compromised -
> however there were no emails send from or deleted from it. I guess someone
> had guessed the password or something like that given my initial password
> was relatively weak.
>
> Once they restored my full access, I changed the password to a random
> string of maximum allowed length. My desktop email client remembers the
> random password. So it could be that just by using this list your email
> gets compromised if you password is weak.
>
> Anyway even if they remove your email from the web, a spammer could in
> theory be also a (respectable :) member of this list and can still see all
> emails via the email program. The best would the mail list software does
> not send the emails at all, but it is too much I think to ask them change
> it. The email are also referenced by the email program when you reply, so
> your email now ends up also in the message body text (I put ... for your
> email in the quoted text in this answer :).
>
>
> On 20/08/14 21:45, Richie Bloss wrote:
>
>  Thanks I will work this from a different angle & try to contact someone
> from the main lists page, perhaps they can remove references to my
> name/email.
>
>  Open shouldn't mean avail for spammers to grab your email.
>
>
> On Tue, Aug 19, 2014 at 6:00 PM, ∅ <ca .... @yahoo.com
> <carsrcoffins23 at yahoo.com>> wrote:
>
>> > I am
>> > concerned that a security hole is present.
>>
>> It seems this is not consistent with the definitions one can find, such
>> as:
>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Security_hole
>>
>> > When I did a Google search on my name yesterday an old post to the
>> *mailing
>> > list * dated 7/22/2013 appeared with my gmail id.
>>
>> It's obfuscated. Spammers are not likely to make much use out of it.
>>
>> If you're trying to hide your email from the Internet, then that may
>> be a problem, but that's totally consistent with the ENTIRETY of
>> Ubuntu's mailing lists. If you have a problem, you need to bring it to
>> Ubuntu as a whole. There are ways around this given the software used
>> (mailman), but it's not Lubuntu's fault. You should look at the main
>> lists page and find some people to contact there:
>> https://lists.ubuntu.com/
>> (yes, all those lists have this problem)
>>
>> > Also I can access the The Lubuntu-users Archives without any login
>> process
>> > & my along all other email (gmail) addresses is there for anyone to see.
>> >  This seems like a large breach in security to me.  Am I incorrect?
>>
>> This is the default for mailman, actually. Not hard to fix, but it
>> does need to be applied universally and Ubuntu as a whole would need
>> to agree with it.
>>
>> Good luck,
>> wxl
>>
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