[Gmail-Users] Re: Google Group Potetial for Email/Spam Harvest?

While I agree that spam has become part of the internet, for over a year now it hasnt hit my gmail account.  I use a seperate gmail account for website registrations, etc...so all spam goes to that account.  My primary account is only for close friends/family, and i literally get ZERO spam in that account.  But i have al

Yes I noticed that Google Groups hides part of the email address.  But then my name shows up and someone could put 2 + 2 togther and get my email address.  However, i assume that a bot couldnt do this, it would have to be a human authnticating it, like a previous poster said. 

On 12/13/05, G.Waleed Kavalec <kavalec@gmail.com > wrote:

Google groups is just the old Usenet, first taken over by Deja, then
by Google, now turned into a YahooGroups clone... except that the
Usenet 'piece' is still out there alive and well.


On 12/13/05, Hex Star < hexstar@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Yes it is possible for your email address to be harvested from the
> google groups archives unfortunetly, but in addition spam has pretty
> much become a part of the web, just be sure to use a spam filter and
> to clear it out periodically and you'll have no issues...also I
> wouldn't be surprised but I'm not sure if this feature exists, if you
> look around the group settings there may be a option to hide your
> email address in google groups
>
> On 12/12/05, RogerPodacter < bryonsommers@gmail.com > wrote:
> >
> > I just did a search on myself and realized that my name and partial
> > email address is listed from these google groups.  Do you think this is
> > dangerous to have my name and/or email address out there?  I dont want
> > my email address to get picked up by spammers .
> >
> >
>


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