Subject:
|
Re: edventures spam
|
Newsgroups:
|
lugnet.admin.general
|
Date:
|
Mon, 26 Nov 2001 21:46:12 GMT
|
Viewed:
|
220 times
|
| |
|
|
Dan Boger wrote:
>
> In lugnet.admin.general, Christopher Tracey wrote:
> > Did anyone else receive spam from a company called edventures.com? I've
> > been getting stuff for weeks until I unsubscribed a few days ago. It
> > appeared in all my accounts that are linked to lugnet somehow and didn't
> > appear in my non lugnet accounts.
> >
> > I thought lugnet was relatively immune to address harvesting...
>
> Both me and Jennifer recieved such spam as well, including to
> inv@peeron.com, which isn't subscribe to anything, of course.
> Unfortunatly, there's nothing stopping anyone from harvesting LUGNET for
> addresses - no protection, at least yet.
Thanks Dan and Jenn,
No big deal overall (to me at least), although I must have dreamed that
LUGNET was spam free.
-chris
|
|
Message has 1 Reply:
 | | Re: edventures spam
|
| (...) Lugnet isn't spam free, although I *think* it's set up to discourage robots and other automated creepy crawlies. Anyone harvesting from Lugnet would have to at least subscribe, and grab the e-mail addys from message headers. This takes out a (...) (23 years ago, 26-Nov-01, to lugnet.admin.general)
|
Message is in Reply To:
| | Re: edventures spam
|
| (...) Both me and Jennifer recieved such spam as well, including to inv@peeron.com, which isn't subscribe to anything, of course. Unfortunatly, there's nothing stopping anyone from harvesting LUGNET for addresses - no protection, at least yet. Dan (23 years ago, 26-Nov-01, to lugnet.admin.general)
|
5 Messages in This Thread:
 
 
- Entire Thread on One Page:
- Nested:
All | Brief | Compact | Dots
Linear:
All | Brief | Compact
This Message and its Replies on One Page:
- Nested:
All | Brief | Compact | Dots
Linear:
All | Brief | Compact
|
|
|
|
