On Friday 04 June 2004 13:47, bill wrote: I think the main reason is the storage of all mailings in a public accessible archive on the dartmouth server containing all e-mail addresses in the messages to this list. Such archives are scanned by robots and the result sold to spammers. It's not the list itself which is responsible for e-mail address ripping. It would be a good idea to filter those archives and remove all e-mail addresses from them. Nice perl script job for Wayne perhaps ....
Taco > i'm starting to get e-mails of the type that want me to supply a bank > account number in order to rip-off some african bank or ministry or > other. my wife gets them all the time (one from someone who called > himself "prince doo-doo") but up until a month or so ago i can't > remember receiving even one. > > anyone else getting more than their fair share of these less than > bona-fide requests lately? > > the reason i ask is because this is the only list i contribute to that > has my e-mail address available for all to see. > > - bill
