I'm not going to go on about this (any more), but I'm sure that YahooGroups and almost every other mailing list system has been well and truly trawled for e-mail addresses (from the "From" header, not the Reply-to) by spammers.
At 08:11 AM 13/03/2002 +1100, John Paul wrote: <SNIP> >There are innumerable other knock-down, end-of-story logical arguments >against it - like the "spam" point, which without going any further should >end the policy <SNIP> > Another simple, knock-down, unanswerable argument: there have been five hundred > billion complaints about this policy, and never one person supporting it. Don't you just love the power of exaggeration from advertising people! :) Three extreme examples in the above quoted sentence alone. 1: "simple, knock-down, unanswerable argument" 2: "five hundred billion complaints" 3: "never one person supporting it" I might add that private messages and vacation messages sent to mailing lists are another component of spam. Ian Green http://www.clicktwocents.com/?107242 e-gold, e-silver, e-platinum, e-palladium Elemental, my dear Watson! --- You are currently subscribed to e-gold-list as: archive@jab.org To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Use e-gold's Secure Randomized Keyboard (SRK) when accessing your e-gold account(s) via the web and shopping cart interfaces to help thwart keystroke loggers and common viruses.
