Re: PCYMTNQREAIYR

[LDR <l1ee057 at veritech dot com>]

Igor,

First the bad news:

eMail list sellers pay bozos to join mail lists and harvest the addresses!

I sure wish that IETF would finish the specs on MTA authentication!

Now, the good news:

Thanks for your help. I very much appreciate it.

Lee

Igor Pechtchanski wrote:

> On Thu, 23 Sep 2004, LDR wrote:
>
>  
>
> > I receive the Cygwin email lists in digest format.
> >
> > The email addresses are preserved in these.
> >
> > Isn't this unnecessary exposure?
> > Can't names be harvested by subscribing to the list and then harvesting new
> > addresses from each new digest?
> >    
>
> You're giving wa-ay too much credit to spam harvesters.  The idea is that
> you don't have to subscribe to any lists if you can just trawl the web.
> If you assume that spammers subscribe to the list, the e-mail addresses
> will always be available, not just in the digests, so all bets are off.
> 	Igor
>  



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