Email Protection? (NON SUBJECT ORIENTED)

[Matthew Hand]

Are you guys doing anything to protect our email addresses? Ever since I made my first post on here, I have been getting some VERY malicious stuff coming to my account?

[Scott Smith]

I blame Luke himself.

...wait what?! It's google groups, bro

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[Jon Forrest]

If you get malicious email as a result of posting to any email list
then I suggest you improve your junk email filter. I believe it's
not the job of the list maintainer to "protect" email addresses
unless the maintainer claims up from that postings will be
anonymous.

Cordially,
Jon Forrest

[Nigel Kersten]

There's a reasonable expectation that the list mods aren't dumping the subscriber addresses and selling them off to spammers.

We're not doing that. :)

Seriously, it is Google Groups, so you get the protection it offers, requiring logins and CAPTCHA to view full email addresses on the web archives, etc etc, but it's difficult to stop people subscribing to lists and collecting addresses that way.

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[Russell Van Tassell]

On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 7:46 AM, Nigel Kersten <ni...@puppetlabs.com> wrote:

Seriously, it is Google Groups, so you get the protection it offers, requiring logins and CAPTCHA to view full email addresses on the web archives, etc etc, but it's difficult to stop people subscribing to lists and collecting addresses that way.

That's one good argument to use a unique address for email list subscriptions, right there... particularly if your junk mail filter is not up to snuff. Using a gmail address for google groups has always seemed like a reasonable compromise, to me (and my "personal" and "professional" addresses are kept separate, of course). Care *always* should be taken when you're "taking an email address public."

Regards,
Russell