On Mon, Dec 04, 2006 at 08:40:06PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Alright... found this via a google. > > http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient-ff&ie=UTF-8&rls=GGGL,GGGL:2006-36,GGGL:en&q=rob%40hcoop.net > > Perhaps we should make this directory only accessible to members? > > -Rob
This google link may have been harvested by spammers, but I don't think there's a lot of human intervention in address harvesting these days. Your address was probably found by a address-mapper-bot. I don't know what they are really called, but, like Graham, I've seen them at work on mail servers I've administered in the past few years. In logs, it looks like a horde of zombie systems are tasked to literally guess usernames at various sites. I've seen tens of thousands of connections per day from this, mixed-in with the valid mail logs. RBLs like Spamhaus do help, along with filtering. -- Michael Potter [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ HCoop-Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://hcoop.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/hcoop-discuss
