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Re: Lugnet not accepting mail
Newsgroups: 
lugnet.robotics
Date: 
Thu, 12 Nov 1998 03:35:21 GMT
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mattdm@mattdm.org%nospam%
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Larry Pieniazek <lpien@ctp.IWANTNOSPAM.com> 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.

As I said, about as spam-proof as the mailing list. I.e. not very, but
better than usenet.



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Matthew Miller                      --->                  mattdm@mattdm.org
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(...) 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 (...) (26 years ago, 10-Nov-98, to lugnet.robotics)

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