[WBEL-users] Google Alert - 'beau.org/pipermail/whitebox-users'
bishop
bishop@platypus.bc.ca
Fri, 29 Oct 2004 11:48:13 -0700
William Hooper wrote:
> Thomas Knoop said:
>
>>Hi William,
>>
>>
>>On Friday, October 29, 2004 2:40 PM, William Warren wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>>>this is the nature of public e-mail lists. Hence why you should use a
>>>address that is either highly filtered or a "throw-away" address.
>>
>>The nature of a public e-mail list is that the e-mail addresses are
>>published on the Internet ?
>
>
> Why would a spammer bother scraping the HTML when it would be so much
> easier to just sign up for the list and get the addresses that way?
>
> I personally don't see it as an issue. If you want to communicate on an
> e-mail list you have to at some point expose your e-mail address.
<metoo>
Yeah. Use those email+tag@whitelist.com kind of email addresses or
somet kind of email+date@temporary.host.net thing, where the secretariat
fakes a 551.redirect sendmail response.
Your mom doesn't subscribe to this list. (just paraphrasing a
litter/clutter memo from an old job, don't panic)
</metoo>
- bish
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My mom can beat your mom at quake.