oss-security - Re: first spam message on the list

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Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2008 14:13:00 +0100
From: Thomas Biege <thomas@...e.de>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: first spam message on the list

On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 09:23:19PM -0500, Josh Bressers wrote:
> > This was unusually quick.  S - thank you for posting the list address on
> > a blog non-obfuscated. :-(
> > 
> > http://c-skills.blogspot.com/2008/02/open-source-software-security-wiki.html
> 
> Well, while this is lame, it was bound to happen eventually anyhow.

Please don't overreact.
Spam emails will not be stopped by obfuscating email addresses in a static
manner or by suppressing information in other ways.

This is not a closed-source obscurity list.


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Bye,
     Thomas
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