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Re: Possible crawler-bot alert?
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lugnet.admin.general
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Date:
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Mon, 4 Feb 2002 14:46:19 GMT
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I've been getting a lot of these - but only to a defunct address that
never posted on LUGNET before...
Mr L F Braun wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I just wanted to ask if there's any evidence we've been visited by
> a spambot lately--suddenly there's been an enormous spike in spam
> (two or three a day, up from one every six months) to my .msu.edu
> account, which I *only* use to post here and have a forwarding
> set from. It's possible that it could be an odd mailing-list sale,
> but because my address hasn't been responsive it's much more likely
> that something is out there farming email addresses.
>
> Is this possible, or are there measures in place to prevent this?
> Have others been noticing a problem, especially as concerns debt-
> reduction and cell-phone ads? I do recall Todd having said something
> about ways that LUGNET's setup prevents webcrawlers from farming
> here.
>
> many thanks,
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> LFB
>
> Xpost -> .admin.general, followups not yet set
>
>
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