On Tue, Mar 20, 2001 at 11:53:51AM +1100, Dave Horsfall wrote:
> On Tue, 20 Mar 2001, Hague, Alex wrote:
> > Unfortunately it seems to be the case, I recv'd the very same thing earlier
> > on today...
> OK, that's three responses in quick succession, so it looks like either
> we have a spammer in our midst (Mr/Ms ListOwner, does the address appear
> on the list?), or someone's retrieved the address list somehow.
Or... A spam harvestor just scraped the archives and they got
added to the lastest spam lists.
Seriously... I put up a sugarplum (a series of poisoned pages
with bogus E-Mail addresses that users would have a hard time finding and
are restricted by robots.txt so legitimate search engines won't touch them)
and quickly discovered that there were more spam harvestors cataloging
my web pages than there were legitimate search engines. List archives
are no different. We want list archives for referral but the damn
harvestors are all over them like white on rice...
> I have zero tolerance for spam, so here's the reply I've been sending
> to all who replied to me:
>
> +-----
> | Thanks; that means that some scum-sucker is scraping the mailing list
> | for addresses. Feel free to complain to the appropriate parties (with
> | the entire message, including headers) to [EMAIL PROTECTED],
> | [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> | and [EMAIL PROTECTED] (addresses supplied courtesy of SpamCop).
> +-----
>
> This scumbag needs to be taught in no uncertain terms that address-scraping
> is not on.
>
> -- Dave Horsfall CL VK2KFU
>
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