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Re: So I got this 411 spam this morning... |
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From: |
Mark Fletcher <markf @
snoovler .
com> |
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Date: |
Thu, 01 May 2003 09:05:21 -0700 |
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To: |
list-managers @
greatcircle .
com |
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<20030501131016.18F5019653F@mycroft.greatcircle.com> |
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Charlie Summers wrote:
> Is it likely that some spammer joined this list to harvest addresses? I
>doubt it. More likely, the scum simply harvested them from one of the
>web-based archives (Yahoo! comes to mind). But it's sure annoying...
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It has been known to happen in the past (subscribing to a list to grab
addresses of those who post). Not implying anything in this case, but
spammers have also automated queries of list subscriptions (ie. WHO
commands). As for harvesting from web-based archives, at least in
Yahoo's case, that's not possible due to the obfuscation of email
addresses that occurs.
Mark
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