[conspire] (forw) Re: Installing packages in Debian

[Rick Moen]

The 'do stuff for me because I'm hiding from spammers' people really do
need to die in a fire.

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Date: Wed, 6 Nov 2013 05:28:00 -0800 (PST)
From: [deleted to protect the guilty]
To: rick at linuxmafia.com
Subject: Re: Installing packages in Debian

Hi Rick,

Could you please remove all of your replies in this very old thread<https://groups.google.com/d/topic/comp.os.linux.misc/dnuyKj2vBvI/discussion>? 
My e-mail address is in it.

Even though it is protected by a captcha, some Usenet copying sites manage 
to copy the full address and place it online, which makes it vulnerable to 
spam bots.

Many thanks in advance!


 


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Date: Wed, 6 Nov 2013 10:31:32 -0800
From: Rick Moen <rick at linuxmafia.com>
To: [deleted to protect the guilty]
Subject: Re: Installing packages in Debian
Organization: If you lived here, you'd be $HOME already.

Quoting [deleted to protect the guilty]:

> Hi Rick,
> 
> Could you please remove all of your replies in this very old thread<https://groups.google.com/d/topic/comp.os.linux.misc/dnuyKj2vBvI/discussion>? 
> My e-mail address is in it.

You seem to be asking me to remove Usenet posting from Google's archive
of the Usenet comp.os.linux.misc newsgroup.  I am unable to accomplish
this request for two reasons:

1.  I am not Google, Inc., hence have no ability to excise the contents
of the Google Groups archives.

2.  Even if I were able to do that, Usenet archives such as
comp.os.linux.misc are decentralised and mirrored all over the world as
part of the inherent nature of Usenet.  So, that full article is already 
pretty much everywhere Usenet is archived, which is very many places.

Yes, spam-harvesters do plow through Usenet netnews repositories, not
just via Google Groups and other HTTP mechanisms.  Some do it via NNTP,
for example.


Separate from that, do you know at least one other person who uses
the Microsoft Windows operating system?  If so, then the strategy of
hiding your e-mail address so spammers cannot find it fails
statistically within one or two month, because of Windows malware that
scrapes e-mail addresses from infected Windows machines' address books
and caches, and mass-conveys them to the brokers who compile massive
sets of addresses to sell them to spammers.

Also, in general, no I would not be willing to retroactively delete all
of my postings to an online thread for the benerfit of a stranger.  I
write online contributions for a reason, and typically put quite a bit
of effort into doing so.  Mass-deleting the fruit of my effort would 
defeat the purposes of all of that work.


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