Re: list migration

[Lars H. <lhe...@us...>]

Daniel J Sebald writes:
> Me?  :)  Dave is the one who doesn't seem to mind them...
 
 See? For some reason missing posts made me miss the context ...

 Daniel, kindly, will you refrain from top-posting in the furture?
 It sucks almost as much as spam.

> Anyway, my original point is that Dartmouth list seemed to be
> a real spam target.  There seemed to be about one or two per
> day routed through it.  I just imagine there was a ton of spam
> we didn't see.  I suspect there are spammers out there that

 One or two a day doesn't make that much of a difference if you
 receive 100 or 200 ...

> collect emails by an automated means.  (Would this be
> technically a form of data mining?)  I suspect that collecting
> addresses and selling them is a source of revenue for some.
> (Should be made universally illegal folks, I decree.)
> 
> Call me paranoid, but I'd prefer not having my address on a list
> in which an automated program can "who" it and search for
> @ symbols.  I can't recall a single spam to my alias address
> for about three years until recently.  (I'm not blaming
> gnuplot-info.)  And now I can see the slow increase in amount.
> (Expletive deleted.)
 
 I am pretty sure that SF is protecting email addresses pretty well,
 even in archives. They have even stepped up anti-spam recently, which
 makes a considerable difference (for a while, I was getting most of
 all spam through SF).

 Can we please stop this thread now?

 Thank you.