SPAM!!

[Bernd Walter]

On Sun, Nov 23, 2003 at 09:38:16PM +0000, Scott Mitchell wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 23, 2003 at 10:35:42AM -0800, Lars Eggert wrote:
> > Thomas Repantis wrote:
> > >Can't this archiving take place in a more intelligent manner?  For example 
> > >using "user host.org", instead of "user at host.org", "user[at]host.org" 
> > >or (Goddess forbid!) user at host.org.
> > 
> > These schemes don't help. Nothing prevents an address-gathering bot to
> > harvest addresses from the mailing list directly.
> 
> Or more likely, from the various newsgroups that these lists are copied to.
> The fact is, if you're going to post to any kind of public list, either use
> an address you don't care about or accept that it's going to attract spam
> and take steps to deal with that.  It sucks, but what else can you do?

Thinking about this is woth nothing anyway.
I know for shure that spammers are already sniffing SMTP transfers to
gather addresses.

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