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Subject: 
Re: edventures spam
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lugnet.admin.general
Date: 
Mon, 26 Nov 2001 22:13:25 GMT
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In lugnet.admin.general, Christopher Tracey writes:
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.

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 certain low-level sort of spam, but a determined spammer
could still harvest Lugnet.

thanks,

James



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(...) Thanks Dan and Jenn, No big deal overall (to me at least), although I must have dreamed that LUGNET was spam free. -chris (23 years ago, 26-Nov-01, to lugnet.admin.general)

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