Tap, tap, tap, is this working???

Peter Coghlan cctalk at beyondthepale.ie
Mon Dec 16 14:47:14 CST 2019


Allison wrote:
>
> I believe there is a someone or something that is subscribed to the list
> and scrape it for active
> names. and emails.  I have no idea what the specific how it is done but it
> is a trivial coding
> task to extract emails for sale as known active.  It was not coming though
> the list but from
> bots most likely and used list members names to obscure being
> spam/uce//malware.
> IT would nto take much to create a subscription and have that go to some
> automation
> to capture information.  The question is how many listen only members are
> there that
> have never ever posted a comment?
>

That is bizarre.  I've used the address used to post this message only for
this mailing list for donkeys years now and it has received very close to
zero spam.  The most recent spam I received arrived on 24th May 2019.

Regards,
Peter Coghlan


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