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

[crufta cat]

It may be that my address got into the local address book of a contaminated
system but stopping this net for several weeks brought
the spam and trash mail from 25-80 a day to zero near instantly (less than
12 hours.).    I've bailed from the list in the past for periods
for the same reason.  I cannot filter the spam due to multiple reasons.

Its not bizarre as people do want valid addresses for scams and
legit offers for crap I do not want.

It is my belief that we have a user that is farming the list and getting
though spam filters.
If you do not. then great.  I've been active here for a very long time
(since I was on WSTD.COM).
It has been a persistent problem that always starts small and grows quickly
and then I start filtering
till I'm killing good mail.

On Mon, Dec 16, 2019 at 4:23 PM Peter Coghlan via cctalk <
cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:

> 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
>