On Fri, Nov 28, 2003, Shachar Shemesh wrote about "Re: [OT?] SPAM": > The problem is not that spammers subscribe to this list. The problem are > the web archives.
You might be surprised, but in addition to what you said, spammers actually *do* try to subscribe to mailing list and find addresses of active subscribers. In fact I think it's what they're after, because I never saw a spammer actually posting to a mailing list after subscribing. How do they know which mailing lists to subscribe to? The spammers I saw simply asked the majordomo account of an arbitrary computer for a list of mailing lists it carries, and then for each of those it subscribed, and also asked for the subscriber list. Many Majordomo servers are configured to allow these actions. Similar issues might exist on other mailing list servers as well, but I didn't personally see them. -- Nadav Har'El | Saturday, Nov 29 2003, 5 Kislev 5764 [EMAIL PROTECTED] |----------------------------------------- Phone: +972-53-790466, ICQ 13349191 |What's tiny, yellow and very dangerous? A http://nadav.harel.org.il |canary with the super-user password. ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
