[e-gold-list] Re: Spam generated by archives?

2003-06-05 Thread James M. Ray
At 12:03 PM +0200 6/5/03, Fidex Marketing wrote: ... 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.

[e-gold-list] Re: Spam generated by archives?

2003-06-05 Thread Danny Van den Berghe
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

[e-gold-list] RE: Spam generated by archives?

2003-06-05 Thread Fidex Marketing
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

[e-gold-list] RE: Spam generated by archives?

2003-06-05 Thread jrw
Sure anybody *could* choose to arichive the messages but whether they do so is another matter. I doubt it. -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- 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

[e-gold-list] Re: Spam generated by archives?

2003-06-05 Thread Joris Bontje
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 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

[e-gold-list] RE: Spam generated by archives?

2003-06-05 Thread Fidex Marketing
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