Mullane's Spambot Beware

budge budge at el-pleasant.org
Wed Apr 10 10:36:27 PDT 2002


On Wed, 10 Apr 2002 at 12:09pm ravi wrote:
>
> the next level of exploitation (if it hasn't started already) i would
> guess is subscribing to a list to harvest subscriber addresses.

That's been going on for several years now and is why many listowners now disable the [who|review|whatever] feature on the [listserv|majordomo|whatever] software these days.


> this,
> and other forms of collecting addresses from mailing lists (and list
> archives) is quite powerful, for not only do i have an email address
> that i know works, but often the list i harvested the address from tells
> me about the person's interests.

Indeed. What do you think all those 'free' list hosting services are up to?

-- no Onan

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Hate leads to using Windows

NT for mission-critical applications.

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