[Az-Geocaching] off topic e-mail question

[Brian Cluff]

Brian LaFrance wrote:
> I think there's been an increase in spam because someone probably figured
> out that most of our email addresses are exposed on AZGeocaching.com.

THATS SIMPLY NOT TRUE!!!  I We've gone out of our way to protect 
everyone e-mail address as much as possible.  I protect everyone privacy 
like I would protect my own.

The address list is NOT published on purpose to prevent privacy and SPAM 
problems, and the archives have all the e-mail addresses removed from 
the message, leaving just the person's name that posted it.  The ONLY 2 
ways I can think of that would allow a spammer to get ahold of any 
e-mail address' off this list would be to either subscribe to the list 
itself, which would only get them a few e-mail addresses because the 
vast majority of the people on this list never actually post anything. 
That would end up being too much work for suck a low payout, so they 
probably wouldn't do it.  The other way, and the more likely way, would 
be to crawl through the archives and look for people that signed their 
messages with an e-mail address.
I would recommend that if you want to sign messages with your e-mail 
address, that you type it our like "person at service dot com".  That 
has been found to be an effective way of stopping spam.

Brian Cluff
Team Snaptek