It appears that there is at least one spammer subscribed to this list who is using it to harvest e-mail addresses. I use a unique e-mail address for the list, and sure enough, I am getting about a spam a day on it. -- Steve Williams "The woods are lovely, dark and deep. steve at icarus.com But I have promises to keep, http://www.icarus.com and lines to code before I sleep, http://www.picturel.com And lines to code before I sleep."
On Wed, Oct 22, 2003 at 09:52:17AM -0700, Stephen Williams wrote:
It appears that there is at least one spammer subscribed to this list who is using it to harvest e-mail addresses. I use a unique e-mail address for the list, and sure enough, I am getting about a spam a day on it.
Most likely it is a public web archive containing unmodified email addresses somewhere. Spammers are known to run web crawlers. -Andi
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