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Hi Gerd,
On 31 August 2000 at 18:39:01 GMT +0200 (which was 17:39 where I live)
Gerd Ewald wrote and made these points on the subject of "Someone
spamming us":
MDP>> Messages in the archive show the address of the archive itself -
MDP>> that to which the archive (which is actually a normal list
MDP>> member) messages are sent.
GE> This means: someone who is not member of the list can't harvest
GE> the e-mail adresses by just looking into the archive because the
GE> "you are subscribed as..." is changed !?
Correct - it is unique for each message sent to each subscriber. It is
appended to the message at point of dispatch by the list server.
GE> But what, if that person just harvests our adress out of our
GE> PGP-sigantures ?
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>>*** Signer: Marck D. Pearlstone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (Disabled)
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GE> I admit, this is not very convenient to harvest e-mail adresses,
GE> but I'm no computer specialist ;-). Maybe someone with more
GE> experience than me could check that ??
I'm not going to do the research myself but I must say that this seems
to be the most likely source for the harvest that was done. With a PGP
SDK a harvester can easily adapt a spider-bot to to a PGP-sig trawl
IMHO.
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Cheers,
.\\arck
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