4 Feb
1999
4 Feb
'99
7:26 a.m.
On Wed, 3 Feb 1999, Tony Duell wrote:
Why is having a lurker on the mailing list any different from having it
archived? Either way we have no control on who gets what we post.
This is a very valid point. I am sure that the spam people will have
already thought of this as a way to get valid email addresses. It was
often the case that once subscribed to an email list you could request a
list of all the subscribers. Now this is very rare and the subscription
list is blocked to everybody, but it is not a lot of work ( a few line
python/perl script) to extract addresses from messages and then discard
the body of the message.
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Kevan
Collector of old computers: http://www.heydon.org/kevan/collection/