"Anthony Atkielski" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

 AA> Spammers obtain e-mail addresses from Web sites, USENET,
 AA> discussion forums, and the like.  Secret strings would
 AA> not be posted to any of these, so no automated harvesting
 AA> of the strings would be possible.  Just leaving the
 AA> string in an e-mail addresses to a number of recipients
 AA> would not be a problem, because spammers would not be
 AA> intercepting such e-mails (or any e-mails, for that
 AA> matter).  As long as the string is not posted in a place
 AA> where spammers can harvest it, they won't get it.

But spammers DO sometimes subscribe to mailing lists, for the purpose of 
harvesting addresses.

-- 
David J. Aronson, Unemployed Software Engineer near Washington DC
See http://destined.to/program/ for online resume, and other info


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