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From: Jaron Kent-Dobias <jaron-wg@kent-dobias.com>
To: wireguard@lists.zx2c4.com
Subject: Re: User on mailinglist that collects addresses to send spam?
Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2023 10:35:54 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Y8Zr+l4j2oqjLqLP@mail.kent-dobias.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5d0d60df-ee8c-87ab-379b-31ed33675668@chil.at>

Hello,

On Tuesday, 17 January 2023 at 00:45 (+0100), Christoph Loesch wrote:
>I use a separate mail-address for every site/contact who wants my 
>mail-address. Just checked my spam-folder and what do I see? a mail 
>from janisa@onertronics.com to my wireguard mail-address which I use 
>only for this mailinglist. So I guess janisa@onertronics.com is 
>collecting mail-addresses here and then sending unwanted spam-mails.

It's nothing so complicated: the wireguard list is publicly archived 
online, addresses included (with minor obfuscation).

An example: 
https://lists.zx2c4.com/pipermail/wireguard/2019-July/004276.html

Jaron

  reply	other threads:[~2023-01-17  9:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-01-16 23:45 Christoph Loesch
2023-01-17  9:35 ` Jaron Kent-Dobias [this message]
2023-01-17 18:42   ` Christoph Loesch
2023-01-27 23:34     ` Christoph Loesch
2023-02-07 22:10 ` Jason A. Donenfeld

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