• cleartext email adresses on todays usenet/tildenet?

    From lkh@lkh@cosmic.voyage to tilde.meta on Fri Jun 24 12:56:40 2022
    Hi all,

    back in the 90ies/early 2000s one was advised to never include ones true email address in usenet posts, lest all spamming hell break loose.

    Recently I see some users use their actual email adresses here on tildes news net, but also on other services like news.aioe.org. Which I actually like a lot. I think it's fun to see folks true email adresses, since often they hint at which tilde / pubnix or whereever folks are writing from. Here on tilde
    it's probably not a problem, since it's an isolated network.

    But anyway. What's everyones take on this in the 2020ies? true email or obfuscated@nowhere.is.invalid?

    cheers,

    lkh
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  • From James Tomasino@tomasino@cosmic.voyage to tilde.meta on Fri Jun 24 22:19:03 2022
    On 2022-06-24, lkh@cosmic.voyage <lkh@cosmic.voyage> wrote:
    Hi all,

    back in the 90ies/early 2000s one was advised to never include ones
    true email address in usenet posts, lest all spamming hell break
    loose.

    I tend to keep my email addresses out of plain text online for that
    reason. Maybe it's not as important to people with better spam
    protections these days, but it's a long standing habit.

    But... for cosmic.voyage at the least it's not a problem. Our server
    whitelists emails to and from other tilde and pubnix servers, but
    anything else will be rejected. Spam away, we don't care!
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  • From freet@freet@aussies.space (The Free Thinker) to tilde.meta on Sat Jun 25 00:23:02 2022
    lkh@cosmic.voyage wrote:
    back in the 90ies/early 2000s one was advised to never include ones true email
    address in usenet posts, lest all spamming hell break loose.

    Recently I see some users use their actual email adresses here on tildes news net, but also on other services like news.aioe.org. Which I actually like a lot. I think it's fun to see folks true email adresses, since often they hint at which tilde / pubnix or whereever folks are writing from. Here on tilde it's probably not a problem, since it's an isolated network.

    It's not a problem at least until someone sets up a web view of
    everything here, then if addresses aren't obscured they could
    easily get picked up by web crawlers, which could be years after
    the posts were made.

    But anyway. What's everyones take on this in the 2020ies? true email or obfuscated@nowhere.is.invalid?

    I only occasionally check my tilde user email and nobody talks
    about anything particularly important with it anyway, so if it got
    spammed to death (though it's spam-free so far) it wouldn't be the
    same disaster as if that happened to one of my 'real' addresses.
    But with the real ones I've given up on spam filtering entirely
    because what I'm getting now is all scam stuff designed to be hard
    to filter and attempting to do so is so unreliable that one has to
    check one's junk folder as much as the main inbox anyway.

    On the other hand many other people seem to never check their junk,
    and it's my emails that very often seem to go into it, just because
    they're not from the likes of Gmail or Yahoo. This is a much bigger
    problem for me, because even if the SMTP logs show the message
    being received A-OK (if I'm sending via my own server, and I don't
    have to be to have these problems), I'm still unsure about whether
    it will ever be read.

    So I'm in favour of obscured addresses in general, because it means
    my life is easier without using an unreliable spam filter, and it
    also means my life is easier because fewer people are forced into
    relying more on _their_ spam filter which considers me a non-person
    for not being @gmail.com. But in general I'm just fed up with the
    state of email.
    --

    - The Free Thinker | gopher://aussies.space/1/%7efreet/
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  • From freet@freet@aussies.space (The Free Thinker) to tilde.meta on Sat Jun 25 00:55:59 2022
    The Free Thinker <freet@aussies.space> wrote:
    and it also means my life is easier because fewer people are
    forced into relying more on _their_ spam filter which considers
    me a non-person for not being @gmail.com.

    That said, I just remembered reading a blog post a little while ago
    where someone's Gmail account was actually putting emails from a
    Google Groups mailing list into junk, so maybe these things aren't
    so discriminatory, just stupid.
    --

    - The Free Thinker | gopher://aussies.space/1/%7efreet/
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  • From John Goerzen@jgoerzen@complete.org to tilde.meta on Thu Jun 30 04:16:20 2022
    On 2022-06-24, James Tomasino <tomasino@cosmic.voyage> wrote:
    back in the 90ies/early 2000s one was advised to never include ones
    true email address in usenet posts, lest all spamming hell break
    loose.

    I tend to keep my email addresses out of plain text online for that
    reason. Maybe it's not as important to people with better spam
    protections these days, but it's a long standing habit.

    For me, I've had my email address since 1995, so that ship sailed a LONG time ago. I just use my email address on Usenet and it doesn't seem to have made things any worse. If someone has a "fresh" address it might be different, but I
    think that other sources of data would be more likely (web crawls, bought lists,
    etc).

    Not an expert though, so take this with a grain of salt.

    John
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  • From John Goerzen@jgoerzen@complete.org to tilde.meta on Thu Jun 30 04:17:30 2022
    On 2022-06-24, James Tomasino <tomasino@cosmic.voyage> wrote:
    But... for cosmic.voyage at the least it's not a problem. Our server whitelists emails to and from other tilde and pubnix servers, but
    anything else will be rejected. Spam away, we don't care!

    This is an elegant idea! I've been thinking about setting up a Tilde (post
    on that topic coming shortly in this group) and dealing with email abuse has been one of the things holding me back. I like that.

    - John
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  • From bencollver@bencollver@tilde.pink to tilde.meta on Thu Jun 30 18:13:57 2022
    On 2022-06-30, John Goerzen <jgoerzen@complete.org> wrote:
    On 2022-06-24, James Tomasino <tomasino@cosmic.voyage> wrote:
    But... for cosmic.voyage at the least it's not a problem. Our server
    whitelists emails to and from other tilde and pubnix servers, but
    anything else will be rejected. Spam away, we don't care!

    This is an elegant idea! I like that.

    I like this idea too. Kind of a KISS & non-commercial email sender accreditation.

    gopher://gopherpedia.com:70/0/Email%20sender%20accreditation

    -Ben
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  • From Dario Niedermann@dnied@tilde.institute to tilde.meta on Thu Oct 20 23:18:51 2022
    On 2022-06-24, lkh@cosmic.voyage <lkh@cosmic.voyage> wrote:

    Recently I see some users use their actual email adresses here on
    tildes news net, but also on other services like news.aioe.org
    [...]
    But anyway. What's everyones take on this in the 2020ies?
    true email or obfuscated@nowhere.is.invalid?

    I don't obfuscate my address, even on Usenet. The way I see it,
    the more "food" a bayesian filter gets, the more accurate it becomes...
    --
    Dario Niedermann. Also on the Internet at:

    gopher://darioniedermann.it/ <> https://www.darioniedermann.it/
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