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Hello Wayne, Monday, February 17, 2003, 9:49:17 PM, you wrote: WB Monday, February 17, 2003 at 12:48 PM (Pacific Time) WB Hello Allie, This is a reply to your message dated WB Monday, February 17, 2003 at 4:08:15 AM, when you wrote: AM PS// Be wary of adding your e-mail address in your signature to AM the list. Spammers tend to visit the archives and harvest e-mail AM addresses from it. WB Good idea Allie, I just removed mine from my sig. This will only keep amateurs from grabbing your E-mail addresses. By simply subscribing to the list, archiving the mail and extracting the addresses, one can harvest everyone's E-mail address with little effort. (1) Nevertheless, every little bit helps to beat spammers... (1): To prove my point I will now add the list of E-mail addresses of the TBUDL-list. However, to make things less obvious for spammers I will write them in white letters on a white background (2) (2): You can try to find them beneath the signature, but you might as well not loose your time... :-) Well, seriously folks, it IS really easy... -- Best Whishes, Mark using The Bat! 1.62i Current version is 1.62 | Using TBUDL information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
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Hello Marck, Tuesday, February 18, 2003, 5:43:51 PM, you wrote: MDP Actually, I disagree - completely. It is only amateurs who do what MDP you suggest - it is too labour intensive for the professionals. About 10 seconds to extract all E-mail addresses from this list, that's what it took. Perhaps we have a different view on labour intesiveness :-) -- Best Whishes, Mark using The Bat! 1.62i Current version is 1.62 | Using TBUDL information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
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Hello Marck, Tuesday, February 18, 2003, 10:49:54 PM, you wrote: MP intesiveness :-) Damned, who stole my n? :-) MDP If it is your intent to do so, I would be very surprised. No reason to be surprised... I do not intend to use it for spamming. I do not use it at all. I do not send spam, period. I was merely testing a feature of some software I use. Furthermore, even though address harvesters may be professionals, those who actually use these addresses are not being professional. I do think advertising through E-mail is legitimate, but only if it is being sent to people who have expressed an explicit whish to receive such a message (no partner stuff etc.) f.i. people who subscribe to a newsletter. Sending advertisements to people who did not request it is simply unprofessional. -- Best Whishes, Mark using The Bat! 1.62i Current version is 1.62 | Using TBUDL information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
