On 26 Jun 2000, at 14:29, Bernie Cosell wrote:
> Well, this morning I got the sixth, seventh and eighth spam-signups
> via:
> The list owner has included the following welcome message:
> Also we would like to offer you a FREE vacation Certificate for 2 to
> many exciting destinations as a thank you :) to get your certificate
> please visit
> [...more spam follows...]
> ======================================================
> You folks have told me that listbot.com isn't really a spam haven and
> while email to 'abuse' there always gets me a prompt apologetic reply,
> these things *DO* still keep coming. And if there's some way to work
> an opt-out list that isn't a PITA for the opted-outers, obviously the
> folks at listbot haven't figured it out yet...
> [it is always amusing to contemplate how/where spammers harvest
> addresses from. this one is via [EMAIL PROTECTED] There has not been
> an email or usenet posting originated from this email address for >8
> years now (indeed, for all practical purposes, there was no "web" when
> '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' was last an active address!)... so where did they
> even *FIND* it..]
Well... lesse... a look at Dogpile found 140 hits for your address at
Google alone, one of which was a spammers treasure trove, a note
that included a "Mass acknowledgement of votes received for
rec.crafts.misc:", as well as the jargon file 4.2 revision history.
Infoseek found another 24 hits, all seemingly centered around the
hackers dictionary. Lycos found 10 more hits - most of them
Hackers Dictionary but some were in the Computer Risks Digest,
Alta Vista found 33 hits, including a note in comp:compilers entitled,
"Re: Perfect hashing table/function".
The bottom line seems to be that the web and news groups never
forget.
I'll certainly agree that you should not be getting notes telling you
that you can opt out of mailing lists to that address. But... is the
flaw in "opt-out", or is the flaw in the person who harvested your
address and the company that let their client use any address they
dredged up? There seems to be something wrong at listbot... beyond
whether they use opt-in or opt-out.
Mike
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Mike Avery [EMAIL PROTECTED]
(970)-642-0282
ICQ: 16241692
* Spam is for lusers who can't get business any other way *
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