--- Joe Vaz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >Unfortunately, (albeit unintentionally) you are doing >disservice to your friends by publicly publishing a >group of email addresses, which spammers can readily >get hold of and spam your friends. >
The above statement is false. I am doing no disservice to anybody. I am not "publicly publishing a group of email addresses". Spammers cannot get hold of email addresses on my cc list, unless these spammers have specifically subscribed to Goanet. In the latter case they can gain access to email addresses of all Goanet contributors. The reason for this is simple. The public archives of Goanet do not show the email addresses on the cc list. Please see the following links to my archived Goanet post in two different public archives to verify this fact: http://www.goanet.org/pipermail/goanet/2005-June/030152.html http://www.goanet.org/post.php?name=News&list=goanet&info=2005-June/date&post_id=030152 However, in the present case spammers will get access to these addresses through Joe Vazs response to my post because Joe made it a point to specifically copy and paste those addresses in his response to my post, presumably because he wanted to somehow get back at me. It is Joe who "publicly published a group of email addresses" from my cc list. Please verify this for yourself in the following archived versions of Joes post in the same two public Goanet archives: http://www.goanet.org/pipermail/goanet/2005-June/030161.html http://www.goanet.org/post.php?name=News&list=goanet&info=2005-June/date&post_id=030161 So if anybody has done disservice to the folks on my cc list, it is Joe Vaz, himself. Cheers, Santosh