> How does one /accidentally/ harvest email addresses and /accidentally/ > add them to a Mailchimp list and /accidentally/ send emails with full > header personalization?
All mass-mail systems I'm aware of offer to scrape your own contacts when you first sign up. Anyone who has ever started or replied to a Nanog thread is in everyone else's contact list, including the list address itself. I don't think the list was scraped, Ben's contacts were. One implies malice, the other, a lack of foresight. Ben is active enough here to know one would be crucified and/or humiliated for scraping the list, both were the case here. -Matt On Fri, Nov 20, 2020 at 5:44 PM Grant Taylor via NANOG <nanog@nanog.org> wrote: > On 11/20/20 4:41 PM, Matt Erculiani wrote: > > Ben is fairly regular on this list and I can't imagine she did this on > > purpose. > > How does one /accidentally/ harvest email addresses and /accidentally/ > add them to a Mailchimp list and /accidentally/ send emails with full > header personalization? > > This *REALLY* seems like a blatant scrape of -- now I have a good idea > -- the NANOG mailing list. > > I for one have black listed 6x7 on all email servers that I have > administrative control over. > > > I'm sure she'll see this thread and fix it. Relax... > > I don't know. I think it was far more intentional than accidental. > > > > -- > Grant. . . . > unix || die > > -- Matt Erculiani ERCUL-ARIN