Date: 29.07.02 Sender: Gerald E. Boyd Time: 09:46
> If you check with all the bulk e-mail programs, the e-mail addresses are > harvested from USENET (far and away the largest source of addresses) > seconded by web pages with mailto links. Well, it all depends on which spam bot gets your address. After that, you may be lucky and your e-mail address is dropped during the transactions (*) between spam sites. To my experience, I think spam caused by "mailto" links is comparable to the one from Usenet posts. After all, altering your e-mail address when posting to Usenet is an easy and well-known way to prevent spam. In a mailing list, we are kinda "unprotected". (*) Check http://64.246.25.198/sdimages/spamdemicmap.gif (Warning: 855K) > To access a mailing list that is archived is just about impossible > because the robot would have to access the archive and then select > message by message. It's easy. Even wget has a similar function (-r). > Most robots just select pages that are indexed. That's true. > In addition, the mail archive also uses the meta tag [META NAME="robots" > CONTENT="noindex"]. Spam bots do not bite for this. They ignore it. > I can guarantee that my e-mail address has been harvested from my web page > and also USENET postings, not from mailing lists that I belong too and not > from the mail-archive web site. I have got spam for sure due to my subscription in this list. I was subscribed with another e-mail address that was exclusively for this list. I didn't use it anywhere else. Furthermore, I was the mail server's administrator so I woudn't sell my e-mail address to spammers <s>. -- [ Quote #430 from msms collection. ] Despite the recent nostalgic fascination with Moogs, I'm afraid too much of the public is still living in a digital daydream. -- Chip Hollingsworth ============= PCWorks Mailing List ================= Don't see your post? Check our posting guidelines & make sure you've followed proper posting procedures, http://pcworkers.com/rules.htm Contact list owner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Unsubscribing and other changes: http://pcworkers.com =====================================================
