>That particular account forever carried spam mail, porno offers, get
>rich quick MLM, you name it garbage. Despite the obvious inference that
>this was due to this one out of the five being registered via their US
>server, any suggestion their security was lax, or someone was feeding
>details out to the spammers, Cserve point blank refused to consider this
>a possibility. The account was for an incoming mailbox only, and there
>were only ever three e-mails sent FROM the account, it was never used
>on a newsgroup or list.
>
>Regards
>
>Mel
I remember, from my days with Compuserve, members had access to the member
directory. I don't remember any spam from those days, but now one could copy or
download and sell such a list to spammers. Or a spammer could receive an
unsolicited Compuserve 2000 CD in the mail, join up for the free 100 (?) hours,
get the member list, leave Compuserve within the month, and have that member
list free of charge. That might work with AOL too. I don't know if the member
list is so freely accessible these days, either from within Compuserve or via
the Internet, or if the AOL or Prodigy member list is so accessible, but might
that explain the virtual truckloads of spam?
I suppose Arachne would not be usable to somebody using AOL, Prodigy or MSN?
I am not familiar with caravaning in the UK, "caravan" makes me think of the
camel caravans in the desert areas of northern Africa and the Middle East, or
the Beale Street Caravan.
