SPAM

[Timothy Miller]

Bob wrote:

>
>Ok that looks like a list trawler, however, this list is available archived
>on google and on other open servers...


I am not thrilled to hear that. I presumed that my email address 
would be relatively safe on this list, because it is open to 
subscribers only. If I had known otherwise, I would have subscribed 
with a disposable email address. This one is not particularly 
disposable.

I doubt that a spammer would take the trouble to subscribe to a 
relatively small list like this. On the other hand, a spammer could 
probably figure out how to harvest email addresses from lists 
archived on Google.

Is it really essential to archive the list on Google?

The other possible source of the spam in question is that a list 
subscriber is infected with a trojan that broadcasts email addresses, 
or spam itself. I'm not an expert, but if I have understood the 
articles I have read on this topic, the internet is infested with 
such things.


Tim Miller