[tor-relays] Spam

[Roman Mamedov]

On Thu, 26 Jun 2014 15:06:44 +0100
kingqueen <kingqueen at btnf.tw> wrote:

> hi,
> 
> well having run a relay for just under 2 weeks, I've got my first spam
> on this email address. As you will no doubt have guessed, this is not
> my usual email address, it is only used for the Tor relay contact
> details, this email list and a very few other projects that will not
> have published my email address anywhere.
> 
> So I guess that this spam is as a result of my email address appearing
> on Atlas or Globe or similar as a result of it being the contact
> address for my Tor relay.
> 
> I know this possibility is mentioned in the Tor documentation; I read
> it somewhere. I guess there's not much to be done about it; I wouldn't
> want to remove contact details - the address is already in the public
> domain anyway, and I want to be contactable with any problems. I guess
> I just have to use the standard spam filtering and combating measures.
> 
> Could those with experience of running a relay for longer, please
> advise if this will become a major problem? Will spam increase
> substantially? Also, any suggestions very gratefully received.

You put your IP on a web page, crawlers can harvest it and use for spam. I've
just tried and easily found your E-Mail using search engines such as Google
and others. If you didn't want it to be harvested for spam purposes, you could
have used at least some minimal obfuscation, e.g. "user AT example DOT com".
But instead you just published it there in the clear form. Nothing surprising
or even strictly speaking Tor-related.

-- 
With respect,
Roman
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