Re: Re[4]: [PHP] problems with spam
| From: | Comex | Date: | Tue, 17 Feb 2004 18:11:37 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Re[4]: [PHP] problems with spam | ||
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Richard Davey:
> Hello mayo,
>
> Monday, February 16, 2004, 3:51:30 PM, you wrote:
>
> m> As for my email being harvested because I wrote it out
> m> (mayo@nycinteractive.com). Well I'll change it to
> m> something else. :-)
>
> There are other ways - spam bots can actually subscribe to the list
> and then just reap the email address of anyone who posts. Or of course
> just scan the web version of the list archives.
>
> m> As it is members of one listserv has gotten swamped. The response
> there was m> a deluge of "me too!"
>
> I bet. It's annoying, but not as annoying as when you post to the list
> and get a stack of Delivery Reports, Out of office replies, user
> mailbox full errors and various other things back again from the
> actual "subscribers".
The only way to get rid of it would be to use the newsgroup version.