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Re: Lugnet not accepting mail
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lugnet.robotics
Date: 
Tue, 10 Nov 1998 15:02:39 GMT
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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?

--
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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  Re: Lugnet not accepting mail
 
(...) As I said, about as spam-proof as the mailing list. I.e. not very, but better than usenet. (26 years ago, 12-Nov-98, to lugnet.robotics)

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  Re: Lugnet not accepting mail
 
(...) LUGnet, by the way, is a private network and is about as spam-proof as the mailing list is by itself anyway. (26 years ago, 9-Nov-98, to lugnet.robotics)

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