-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, Aug 07, 2003 at 12:51:33AM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > It's arguably a useful (if rude) tactic in news, since, I hypothesize, > it's much faster for spammers to harvest From: addresses because they're > usually in the overview file while Reply-To: is not. That makes it a > matter of downloading an index versus downloading every article.
I did an experiment by posting a temporary account in the From header in a bunch of different fairly high-traffic, high-spam groups as well as the ones I regular. Six months later when I remembered I had started that little experiment, the box was still empty. This doesn't surprise me at all, though: how many times have you gotten a spam that starts off "This is a text-only section for people with older[1] mail readers incapable of viewing HTML" and then leads right into the HTML spam... [1] Yeah, whatever, the current release of OE is *way* older than the current version of mutt... - -- .''`. Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : :' : proud Debian admin and user `. `'` `- Debian - when you have better things to do than fix a system -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/MjONsClmdIs2Ki8RAlAxAJ4heRDCYHqD/FSFsueP1Coj6luhSwCeKDOz hXQGzBZdpFhaSoEy0ZzvK0k= =634E -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]