At 12:03 PM +0200 6/5/03, Fidex Marketing wrote:
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I think the culprit is the list archive which is open to
address-harvesting bots.
The archive is useful, and one of the things I refuse to do
about spam is give up useful things if that can be avoided,
since doing that lets the spammers win.
I think the culprit is the list archive which is open to
address-harvesting bots.
Can something be done about it?
Hi,
Is there really a need for list archives here?
Does it serve any purpose, other than providing the address-harvesting bots with
what must look almost like a real
Is there really a need for list archives here?
Does it serve any purpose, other than providing the address-harvesting
bots with
what must look almost like a real 'goldmine' in their eyes?
Why not turn these archives OFF ,and delete them?
I must say I have never looked at the archives and
Sure anybody *could* choose to arichive the messages but whether they do
so is another matter. I doubt it.
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hi nick,
i think there are at least 4 public gold list archives out there, most
of which do some obfuscation of source email address, but an industrious
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On Thu, Jun 05, 2003 at 02:18:10PM +0300, Danny Van den Berghe wrote:
Is there really a need for list archives here?
Does it serve any purpose, other than providing the address-harvesting
bots with what must look almost like a real 'goldmine' in
Hi jrw,
i think there are at least 4 public gold list archives out there, most
of which do some obfuscation of source email address, but an
industrious
individual could certainly reconstruct subscriber addresses. but there
are almost certainly harvesters subscribed to all the lists, so the