Re: [MiKTeX] Re: Little survey - Newsgroup on usenet

[Mathieu R. <mro...@fr...>]

It doesn't work on newsgroups since those page are web-accessible. A dumb=20
soft can collect thousands of addresses, just by scanning html and looking=
=20
for @

matt


At 11:03 24/10/2002 +0200, you wrote:
>More people subscribed to one or more newsgroup take a trick: they put a
>(random) word (usually: nospam...) into the mail address used for reply,
>that this word must be cut from the address in case of reply to sender.
>Then the spammers take the mail addresses and try to send advertise, but
>attempt fails because the mail address is faked.
>
>Bye. SkyBlueSeeker.
>
>************************************
>-----Messaggio Originale-----
>Da: "Mathieu Rondeau"
>Data invio: gioved=EC 24 ottobre 2002 10.20
>Oggetto: Re: [MiKTeX] Re: Little survey - Newsgroup on usenet
>
>
> > That would a great initiative, but beware of spam. I am subscriber to a
>lot
> > of mailing lists and/or newsgroups, and miktex list is one of the only
> > groups ignored by porn or financial spam. And newsgroups are really
> > infected by spam, coz of those lousy email address collecting robots.
> > So a newsgroups would be great, but we risk another discussion about
>**crap**.
>
>
>
>
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