Reply to mail from Pollywog about Laff A Day
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>>>I got this spam yesterday also, so I wonder if the spammer is getting
>>>names from the list.
>> The spammer doesn't have our names... Some one has subscribed the actual
>> list
>> address to his mailing list... This should be fun to watch :-(
> I said that he had our names (I meant e-mail addresses) because I got
> these spams in my personal mailbox and they did not come from the list
> server (some did, some did not).
it is likely a spambot came across an unpoisoned web based list archive
and processed it.
/side note
to anyone who does web based list archiving, please poison the top of the
pages
-d
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