Spammer harvesting info-cyrus list

Phil Howard phil-info-cyrus at ipal.net
Thu Apr 17 10:10:43 EDT 2003


On Mon, Apr 14, 2003 at 09:28:48PM +0800, Lee Sanders wrote:

| Way off topic but within 24 hours of posting to this list using a unique
| email address someone is spamming it with the nigerian bank scam.
| 
| Just an FYI if anyone is interested, be aware that this list is being
| actively harvested.

Sounds ike maybe we need a mailing list program that sends to each
subscriber a different mapped email address for replies which can
be traced to which subscriber it was sent to.  Then if they spam,
they can be identified and unsubscribed.

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