[Air-l] Re: this list as a SPAM addr source

[Valdis]

Most lists with archives are mined for email addresses... IMHO we should remove
all personal email addresses off this list or display our addresses like this:
meREMOVETHIS at mydomain.com  That way an intelligent human will know to send the
email to me at mydomain.com and a SPAM bot will find an email address that will
get an auto response for a bad address.

Just looking at the last digest I received [Air-l digest, Vol 1 #276] there
were easily over a dozen personal emails 'for harvesting'... we should not make
the SPAMmers job so easy!!!

Valdis Krebs
valdisSPAMTHIS at orgnet.com  ;-)



air-l-request at aoir.org wrote:
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> > Message: 6
> Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2002 12:52:43 +0100

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> Subject: [Air-l] Air-L list or archive raided for e-mail addresses by spammer?!

[SNIP]

> 
> Hi all,
> 
> The other day I received a spam mail, the headers of which you can find below.
> 
> It was send to the non-existant username <air-l> at my domain. I received the
> same spam message also at the account I normally use for mailing lists.
> 
> This leads me to conclude that either the list itself or the archives of the
> list have been pilfered by a spammer.
>