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Subject: 
Re: Spam alert!
Newsgroups: 
lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.org.au, lugnet.admin.terms
Date: 
Wed, 18 Oct 2000 22:24:05 GMT
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In lugnet.admin.general, Tim Courtney writes:
In lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade, Benjamin Whytcross writes:
There's been another case of harvesting... I got an email at work today about
an egg farm for sale in Qld region. The seller actually stated where he got • my
details: lugnet.loc.au.qld.mac [I think that's right.] He said he got it • while
looking for some other info.

That's pretty sick.  Is there any way Todd could add a terms of use for the
LUGNET website for everyone -- members, non-members who post, and people who
neither post nor are members??  That way he could legally forbid email address
harvesting and potentially bring legal ramificaitons to those who do?  Just a
question...

Unfortunately, such people are unlikely to take any notice of such conditions.
And any legal action against them is probably doomed to failure, and will
certainly be expensive.

The best two solutions are probably:
1. Never post your e-mail to public forums - use spam-block addresses (as Jake
has mentioned in this thread) either make the spam-block obvious, or put
instructions at the bottom of the post.
2. Run all your e-mail through a good spam filter - unfortunately, this usually
has the side effect of filtering some non-spam e-mail as well, you've just
gotta decide how tough you wanna be on the spam.

Regards,

ROSCO



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  Re: Spam alert!
 
(...) That's pretty sick. Is there any way Todd could add a terms of use for the LUGNET website for everyone -- members, non-members who post, and people who neither post nor are members?? That way he could legally forbid email address harvesting (...) (24 years ago, 18-Oct-00, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.org.au, lugnet.admin.terms)

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