All it takes is for a bot to sign up for the list and begin harvesting. Without any decent bot-stops in place, everyone on the list is on a harvester buffet bar. If the only authorization required, is a 'reply' to the authorization response, then most harvesters can join without anyone realizing it. That is why our(All-Spec) commercial mailing list registration requires you to read an authorization code from the response e-mail and type it into a web form. Then, a human has to interpret a skewed/pixilated GIF and type in the visualized code into a separate web form. That stops most harvesters.
Something else to consider, is the presence of your e-mail in cross-posting on lists/newsgroups and web forums. Spiders can pull e-mail addresses from just about anything now-a-days. Glen http://picksource.com > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Allen E. Elwood > (CA) > Sent: Monday, September 20, 2004 12:44 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: [U2] spammed > > > NET*SKY.*P and Net*sky.*P I got this morning on the address I use for this > list. (asterisks added to avoid getting filtered away into the > bit bucket) > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of gerry > Sent: Monday, September 20, 2004 08:13 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [U2] spammed > > > i just received a viral mail delivery notification notice sent to my email > address that is used solely for the u2 list and absolutely nothing else. > anyone else get this ? > > gerry > ------- > u2-users mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/ > ------- > u2-users mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/ ------- u2-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/
