Your Opinion In lbo-talk-archive

Marco Anglesio mpa at the-wire.com
Tue Dec 5 14:47:16 PST 2000


On Tue, 5 Dec 2000, kelley wrote:
> that letter was pretty pathetic. reflects poorly on that publication, i'm
> afraid. how can it be respectibale if an editor couldn't figure out who
> the heck you were after typing your email address into the To: line? who

The answer, I believe, is that they were probably harvested in bulk from the archive website. I have a robots.txt file (which webcrawlers are supposed to read) but not everyone pays attention to that. Especially those that are harvesting names and email addresses for spam :)

Marco

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