Re: *** ADMIN: Spamming

[Jim Essinger <esinger@xxxxxxxx>]

   Peter,

   When I do a google search on my email address, - google itself limits the
   response, but there is some text close to the bottom of the page that
   says;

    "In order to show you the most relevant results, we have omitted some
   entries very similar to the 2 already displayed.
   If you like, you can repeat the search with the omitted results included.
   "

   When I repeated the search with the omitted results included, I got 9 or
   10 pages of hits, all from midrange.com.

   Could this be your case as well?

   Jim

   At 01:00 AM 12/23/2004, you wrote:

     Scott,

     I also noticed that, and thought that it could be the reason for the hit
     in Google.

     What I do find strange, though, is that there's only one single hit,
     whereas I have posted more than that.

     Peter Colpaert
     Application Developer
     Massive - Kontich, Belgium
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     Scott Klement <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
     Sent by: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
     23/12/2004 08:55
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     Hello,

     > Did a search for this mail address - which I have not used anywhere
     but
     on
     > the midrange lists, and which didn't exist before October 19 - and it
     > turned up one hit:
     >
     > http://archive.midrange.com/code400-l/200410/msg00005.html
     >
     > But when I went to that page, the address was not there.

     Google ignores punctuation in your searches.  So, if you remove
     everything

     but letters from your e-mail address, does each word of the address
     exist
     in the message?

     I took a look at the message that Google points to, and it contains the
     following line:
     Sent by: code400-l-bounces+peter.colpaert=massive.be@xxxxxxxxxxxx

     Although that's not technically your e-mail address, it's got the same
     words in it, therefore Google would consider it a match.

     Furthermore, the fact that it exists in the e-mail message means that
     someone who knows how midrange.com works would be able to derive your
     e-mail address from the message.

     David, is it possible to make sure those "Sent by:" lines don't exist in
     the archives?

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