On Tue, 26 Dec 2000 00:38:46 -0500 (EST), [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>>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.
Hi Thomas,
Caravanning in the uk meaning using a touring or towed caravan to
camp in different places.
Thanks for your note, possibly explains it a bit about the spam on
Cserve?AOL
Regrads
Mel
--from Mel Evans, e-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Webmaster Services to Scotts Caravans of Mayfield Dalkeith
Commercial sites located and serviced at http://www.webtheon.freeserve.co.uk
