Web archive addresses not munged was Re: ASSISTANCE NEEDE (fwd) ?JUNK MAIL?

From: Vintage Computer Festival <vcf_at_siconic.com>
Date: Thu Jun 19 15:57:00 2003

On Thu, 19 Jun 2003, Jay West wrote:

> I will have a look at maybe writing some code to strip them out of the old
> archives. I find it hard to believe that a spammer would go through the
> archives just to get some 490 odd addresses, but maybe. It will take some

The spammers don't do it, but their highly intelligent, super-advanced
web crawler agents do.

All the man-hours put into writing programs to cull e-mail addresses
could've solved the spam problem.

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