[wp-hackers] Re: Spam to addresses on the list

[Callum Macdonald]

G'day,

I'd rather not pursue this debate here, I just wanted to add some 
balance to the pro-Google comments.

Personally, I don't trust Google, I think things *could*[1] go very 
wrong (it's fiction), and I don't want a company to have that much data 
on me. My choice. Please don't tell me I wear a tin foil hat unless you 
actually know me and have a picture to prove it.

I'd warmly invite you to leave this discussion at 3 posts for Google, 2 
posts against. We each have our views, let's leave it at that. This will 
be my last post on the topic.

Cheers - Callum.

[1] http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/bubblecity8

Otto wrote:
> Google's hosted mail service works particularly well and allows for
> very easy to use and custom domain email management. It has a
> particularly good spam filtering service and even provides a simple to
> setup Jabber interoperable server if you can make a few simple DNS
> entries.
>
> So, it is in fact, quite good. As are most all of Google's *free*
> services, IMO.
>
> Also, I've never seen any Google related privacy issue that doesn't
> reek of tinfoil-hatism, so if you'd care to point out real issues,
> then your comment might hold more weight. But simply saying "it's bad
> I don't like it" really doesn't get you anywhere.
>
> In the meantime, I highly recommend Google's email hosting services.
> It just works incredibly well. I understand that Microsoft also
> provides a similar service through their "Live" system, if you care to
> try a different direction.
>
>
>
>
> On 12/10/07, Callum Macdonald <lists.automattic.com at callum-macdonald.com> wrote:
>   
>> I just couldn't let these gmail plugs go unrebutted!
>>
>> Google is not good. With gmail's hosted mail service comes all of the
>> Google privacy and other issues. I only recently realised WordPress uses
>> google's related search by default, oh it saddened me so.
>>
>> I don't want to start a Google debate, so please don't feel the need to
>> reply to this thread. I feel two positive notes for Google and one
>> negative makes a reasonable balance.
>>
>> Cheers - Callum.
>>
>> Chris Poteet wrote:
>>     
>>> I do hosted Gmail as well, and it is amazing.  www.google.com/a/
>>>
>>> On Dec 4, 11:43 pm, Computer Guru <computerg... at neosmart.net> wrote:
>>>
>>>       
>>>> I gave up on obfuscation and security via obscurity -- I receive around 1600
>>>> spam *daily* to this address which post literally everywhere.
>>>>
>>>> Solution: hosted gmail which filters out all but one or two spam per day.
>>>> Quite impressive.
>>>>
>>>> (though Gmail _does_ have false positives, I wouldn't know since I never go
>>>> into the spam folder to check)
>>>>
>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>> From: wp-hackers-boun... at lists.automattic.com
>>>>
>>>> [mailto:wp-hackers-boun... at lists.automattic.com] On Behalf Of Callum
>>>> Macdonald
>>>> Sent: Wednesday, December 05, 2007 5:03 AM
>>>> To: wp-hack... at lists.automattic.com
>>>> Subject: [wp-hackers] Spam to addresses on the list
>>>>
>>>> G'day,
>>>>
>>>> I use individual email addresses for each mailing list I'm on. I'm
>>>> starting to get a fair bit of spam (700 in a week) to the address for
>>>> this list. Is there anything the list admins can do to improve the
>>>> situation?
>>>>
>>>> I'm guessing the standard obfuscation on list archive is probably not
>>>> sufficient to keep a smart harvester at bay. Stripping characters from
>>>> emails would probably work better, or something like that.
>>>>
>>>> I don't have a lot of time now, just wanted to float the idea.
>>>>
>>>> Cheers - Callum.
>>>>
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