[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

-- 
	My mom can beat your mom at quake.