ASSISTANCE NEEDED (fwd)

From: Jay West <jwest_at_classiccmp.org>
Date: Thu Jun 19 11:34:01 2003

It is possible that a spammer has joined the list, and is harvesting
addresses by storing the email address of each post. However, that's not
real common for spammers to do that. This is too low volume (comparatively)
of a list for them to benefit much from that when they can get millions of
email addresses much more easily and quickly (newsgroups, buying lists,
etc.).

I'm sorry to say, and I know you don't want to hear this... but 99 times out
of 100 when someone thinks that someone is harvesting email addresses from
the list, that's not the case. They either posted somewhere else, or were
victims of an address harvesting program on a website that talks to Outlook,
that kinda thing.

More to the point, I don't think there is anything that can be done to
prevent this. We have exceedingly strong spam prevention as to this list - I
know when I go through all the postings manually several times a day!

Jay West
Received on Thu Jun 19 2003 - 11:34:01 BST