Yep, the evil spammers did nail us. There's actually a web page telling people how to spam, and they even provide a number of mail archives to harvest email addresses from.
And right in there is the former IDM archive.
An excerpt, and the link follow.
"MAILING LISTS
What makes a Successful Mailing? Start with a good mailing list. Then consider the offer. Write well. Don't use a bag of tricks.
Your mailing list must be sent to people who will open what you send and you must have a good offer, presented in a professional manner. The perspective customer will form an opinion of your mail order company or MLM offer by what they receive. Follow this important rule : Stress what your offer will do for your reader. Think like this: \"What is this going to do for me?\" "
from:
http://www.researchetc.com/reports/mailinglist/50.htm
If that's not incidious enough for ya, who else but the Japanese would do "research" on mining mailing list archives?
Mining Mailing List Archives
http://www2002.org/CDROM/poster/37/
Richard Barnett <richard.barnett@pobox.com> wrote:
Looks good -- I like the obfuscated email addresses! (I'm sure the bulk
of my spam originated from harvesting of the skylab.org archives...
Can't wait for the pages to expire from the Google cache.)
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