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Re: Lugnet not accepting mail
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lugnet.robotics
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Tue, 10 Nov 1998 15:02:39 GMT
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lpien@ctp*saynotospam*.IWANTNOSPAM.com
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Matthew Miller wrote:
> LUGnet, by the way, is a private network and is about as spam-proof as the
> mailing list is by itself anyway.
How do you figure? I'd say any public posting of your email address is
vulnerable to a spam-address-harvester-bot. While it would take some
intelligence on the part of a human to point the bot at this news
server, there is nothing that would stop the bot from reading each of
the articles and harvesting away.
It would be a small haul, probably well less than a thousand email
addresses at this point(1), but the risk is there nonetheless.
Now, we are fairly safe from spam POSTS, but those annoy me less than
spam in my inbox.
1 - Todd?
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Larry Pieniazek http://my.voyager.net/lar
For me: No voyager e-mail please. All snail-mail to Ada, please.
- Posting Binaries to RTL causes flamage... Don't do it, please.
- Stick to the facts when posting about others, please.
- This is a family newsgroup, thanks.
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