On Sun, Sep 01, 2002 at 09:04:32AM -0500, Jeremy Blosser wrote: > On Sep 01, Peter T. Abplanalp [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote: > > On Sat, Aug 31, 2002 at 04:31:54PM -0700, Will Yardley wrote: > > > Yes, but it's much less likely to happen... a spammer would have to go > > > to a lot of effort (comparatively) to sign up for a list like this... > > > and spamming a list of largely technical people would be dumb anyway. > > > > i disagree. it would be trivial to set this up. i could set up a > > system in less than half an hour that would harvest the email > > addresses of posters. anyone who thinks that spammers aren't smart > > enough to do this is deluding themselves. even if the spammers > > weren't smart enough, they could pay someone who was to do it. > > You are correct in theory, but wrong in practice. The simple fact is that > they aren't mining lists (yet), and avoiding posting your address online > does prevent them from finding you as easily. Simple evidence: the web
This hasn't been my experience, the vast bulk of the spam I get is (I believe) from putting my address onto web sites when I buy stuff on line etc. I ve started using a different address for usenet postings and that address has had no mail set to it at all since I started using it, that was some months ago now. So my conclusion is that E-Mail addresses on Usenet at least are *not* harvested, at least not on the groups I frequent. -- Chris Green ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
