At 10:36 PM 7/28/2002 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote the following: >Same thing is happening to me. I've gotten email from people >I don't know, and I've never heard of asking me computer >questions (and probably spam as well). They said they found >my email address at google when google indexed PCworks >archive messages.
Google (old DejaNews) doesn't archive mailing lists, only USENET postings. The only mailing lists that are also archived by Google are the old BITEARN nodes (listserv mailing lists like Help-Net). If you appear in Google it's because of a web page or a USENET posting made by you or someone else. Mailing lists are protected in the sense that you have to be a member of the list to search the archives. However, there is nothing to stop a determined user from signing up to a mailing list, getting the archives, and then unsubscribing. In fact, before LISTSERV changed the way the index listing was sent out, many spammers did this with LISTSERV mailing lists. Personally I can't believe anyone would waste the amount of time required in this manner to do it. Most spammers just buy a CD-ROM with 30 million e-mail addresses and a bulk e-mail program and begin spamming.. If you check with all the bulk e-mail programs, the e-mail addresses are harvested from USENET (far and away the largest source of addresses) seconded by web pages with mailto links. The robots that travel the web use web pages and USENET postings. -- Gerry Boyd ============= PCWorks Mailing List ================= Don't see your post? Check our posting guidelines & make sure you've followed proper posting procedures, http://pcworkers.com/rules.htm Contact list owner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Unsubscribing and other changes: http://pcworkers.com =====================================================
