On Thursday 04 October 2001 04:54 am, P Kirk wrote: > Its my impression that there are only a few email harvesters out there > and that they don't work very hard. Perhaps once you have a list with a > million names, its not worth wasting time building a new one.
I suspect there is some truth to that. > That was over 3 years ago. Since then I have used pknews all over > usenet and patrick in quite a few mailing lists. Yet over half the 20 > or so pieces of spam I get every day are to that old pkirk address which > hasn't been used publicly in 3 years. About half of the spam I get these days is addressed not to my real address but to about half a dozen addresses of the form [EMAIL PROTECTED] always beginning with "m2" and ending with ".fsf" and not to my ISP's mail server but directly to my Linux box. It took me a while to figure out they aren't email addresses at all. They're usenet message ID's generated by gnus. Gnus was my mail and news reader of choice for several years before I embraced KDE, but I haven't posted to usenet from gnus in a couple of years. > Perhaps I need to get out more :-( Perhaps we all do. :-} -- Bud Rogers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> They have awakened a sleeping giant and filled him with a terrible resolve.
