David, Thanks for checking. To re-iterate what Danny said, I was not in intending to blame GTA in any way. Just something about the format of one of the files suggested a spider had gathered the names and that perhaps they were targeting web mail list archives of which GNATBOX's list is one example.
The sample post which I picked at random to examine did not include any actual email addresses, but there is the clever reply to button which when pressed results in a redirect to a mailto: url with a cleartext email address. Since it appeared that the archive was being serviced by a perhaps common archive tool with this email masking feature, it occured to me that the jerks doing the scam had a tool which would crawl discrete archives and harvest email addresses in fairly small chunks and the mailto: redirect was easy to work around. You didn't say, but I presume there were also email addresses in the archive which weren't in the spam list. As to my preference... probably remove the host name ... from any addresses you find in the body AND provide a web form emailer for followup questions which would use the webserver to actually send the followup. Or perhaps restrict use of the mailer link to folks registered on the list ... one approach would be to email the original posting back to the user with proper adornment for a subsequent reply. A small amount of filtering to reclude many requests from the same target, etc. Yeah .... I know that is a lot of work but as these (*&(*^%& spammers send me junk I get more and more frustrating. To sort of second Danny's comment, it would be really cool if the GNATBOX could have builtin ability to maintain its own black list AND white list. Thanks again for all of your support. Dave Morris --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To subscribe to the digest version first unsubscribe, then e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive of the last 1000 messages: http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]
