Anyone interested in harvesting addresses would simply subscribe to the
various lists. There is no way to prevent this type of abuse. It is a
non-issue. Only certain radical anti-spammers (and those duped by them)
believe it to be problem. Coincidentally, only lists frequented by such
radical antispammers seem to suffer these problems. I guess they've proven
the point: Mail lists can be abused.
Of course, that isn't the same point as "(Type 1) Spammers abuse mail
lists".
--Dean
On Mon, 16 Jun 2003, David Morris wrote:
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> On Mon, 16 Jun 2003, Michael Froomkin - U.Miami School of Law wrote:
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> > My understanding is that The Mail Archive
> > (http://www.mail-archive.com/lists.html) will provide free storage for
> > mailing lists. I think every WG list should be permanetly archived in
> > this manner.
>
> What a great way to help address harvesters ... one site ... one 'API' to
> program against to harvest many valid addresses. This particular archive
> example hides email addresses, but it took me less that 5 minutes to
> determine how to recover addresses from the page data.
>
> So I don't think the suggested policy is a good idea without much more
> effective blocking of access to email addresses.
>
> Dave Morris
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