Question

Shortly after having registrerd I get spam to the unique email addresss I give to TWiki. Is TWiki selling the addresses? Is there a way you could protect the addresses against scavengers (like not showing them at all, or in 'obfuscated' format).

Thanks

PS: The spam was from:

Received:from aol.com ([24.18.196.149]) by femail5.sdc1.sfba.home.com (InterMail? vM.4.01.03.20 201-229-121-120-20010223) with SMTP id <20010806060430.DMLS24816.femail5.sdc1.sfba.home.com@aol.com> for <address-removed-by-me>; Sun, 5 Aug 2001 23:04:30 -0700

From:<BmwTuner2001@yahoo.com>

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-- JonasSKarlsson - 06 Aug 2001

Answer

Thank you for reporting this. We are not selling the addresses, I am detesting and fighting spam. In fact we couldn't do that since we have a privacy statement on the download page ( http://twiki.org/download.html ).

It looks like a spambot grabbed your e-mail address from the TWiki.org web site. Hmm, it looks like we need to enhance TWiki to ObfuscateEmailAddresses to prevent that.

-- PeterThoeny - 06 Aug 2001

Update: Implemented a spam block mechanism. All addresses have a text added just after the domain name to block spambots. See details in ObfuscateEmailAddresses.

-- PeterThoeny - 06 Aug 2001