Neil Walsh wrote:
quoted 3 lines Actually where are the archives you're talking about? The only ones I can find
> Actually where are the archives you're talking about? The only ones I can find
> are gzipped Berekley style mailboxes, which I'm guessing is an extremly
> inefficent way of harvesting e-mail addresses.
Sadly, it does happen, but I think only the non-gzipped files are crawled, and
a script automatically gzips the previous month's archive on the first of the
month. So you can reduce your chances of getting picked up through those
files by posting later in the month. :)
The only thing you can really do when posting to any public forum is expect to
get spam at the address you posted from.
That's the sad state of the Internet these days. We try to mitigate it, but
there's not much we can do, and once an email address is known to spammers, it
has other ways of propagating, as I'm sure you're all aware ("5 million email
addresses for $500! - click here!").
Even if the list weren't archived at Hyperreal, other subscribers could be
harvesters or could be (and certainly are, as in the case of the skylab.org
site) putting the posts into their own publicly accessible archives.
Mike
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Denver, Colorado, USA
http://hyperreal.org/~mike/
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