From: J. Forster (jfor@quik.com)
Date: Tue May 16 2006 - 19:02:00 PDT
Glenn Shaw wrote:
> [snip]
> It seems that somehow they are mining the list for usable addresses. I
> don't know if there is anything to do about it anyway from a practical
> standpoint and they are all caught and dumped by my Spam K9 filter program.
> [snip]
For sure, they are mining the lists. There are two types of lists, those with
open archives and those members only archives. This is an open list and Google
searches it.
The Chinese have a billion people and they can certainly sit a few hundred down
in front of 'puters to harvest the emails of list posters and then sell them.
The same applies to any number of other low wage countries. Just wait until the
Africans start doing it too.
In groups (like the Yahoo ones) the archives can be made 'members only' but that
does not help much. Someone can join with a disposable email address and harvest
the posters' email addresses as they pop up and turn around and sell the list.
Careful moderation will prevent spamming the list, but not help with individual
spams to posting list members.
The ONLY ways to attack this problem AFAIK is to go after the people hiring the
spammers (like internet drug stores) and/or the spamming ISPs. There are a few
dozen major bad eggs that if boycotted, would really cut down on spam.
FWIW,
-John
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