[gopher] Any one else getting spam/malware/phishing emails on their gopher-specific email address?

Cameron Kaiser spectre at floodgap.com
Sat Jan 21 18:13:38 UTC 2017


> I have an email address advertised solely on my gopher-hole, and have been
> getting quite a few malicious emails lately. I don't know how many visitors
> I get, and from where (need to fix that), but it's ironic that a
> "specialist" Internet presence such as a gopher-hole is regularly targeted
> whereas my web site so far remains untouched. Anyone else had this?

Because of gopher->web proxies, you probably can't rely on that address
remaining purely in Gopherspace. Some of those proxies are even searchable
in Google (which I disagree with personally and block at the server level,
but it's their service to implement).

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