As far as I know the Finale list archives have been obscuring email addresses for some time, but it seems it didn't always work. That's bad enough and for that reason I am happy that the archives are going to be private in the future.
Johannes
Owain Sutton wrote:
OK, I concede that most of the algorithm-based CC's are to my junk account with Hotmail etc., where there's going to be a higher hit-rate for randomly generated addresses.
Simon Troup wrote:
That's odd, because when I see an email with a lot of addresses CC'd at my ISP, the addresses are all real addresses (I've checked by viewing the USR directory of my ISP's server). That shows that the addresses really *are* harvested, not made up by algorithm.
This is not to say that there aren't plenty such spammers using algorithmically created spam lists, just that harvesting is real.
It's *very* real.
I agree. If Owains theory was correct (that email addressed to simon.troup is random) I should also be getting some stuff addressed to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and [EMAIL PROTECTED] This is clearly not the case. I've got catch all email setup on my server, so I see every every message.
There's next to no random stuff on there except when people try to spoof my address for sending spam and I get the "message undeliverable" notices.
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