[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Sat, Aug 31, 2002 at 11:04:21AM -0500, Aaron Goldblatt wrote:
> > an fyi so yall know it's happening, my email address used exclusively > > for mutt-users and mutt-dev has been harvested for spam. i believe i > > posted to mutt-users exactly once, and never to mutt-dev. > Unfortunately even if this list weren't archived with our email-addresses > intact the list could still be mined for addresses by someone who just > signed up to the list and listened. > > Unless the spammer was a total idiot there would be no way to tell them > apart anybody else on the list who is just a listener. Yes, but it's much less likely to happen... a spammer would have to go to a lot of effort (comparatively) to sign up for a list like this... and spamming a list of largely technical people would be dumb anyway. It's much more likely for addresses to get harvested from a list archive, since a crawler will find them. -- Will Yardley input: william < @ hq . newdream . net . >
