Subject: (whorl) How They Make Spam

From: Dave Lebling <dlebling at shore.net>
Date: Fri, 23 Feb 2001 12:45:24 +0000

> From: james.kellar at quantel.com
> am I right in thinking that the list just got spammed by someone in
Germany?
> they shouldn't have been to get our email addresses directly like that,
should they?

Spammers get addresses by extracting email addresses from any available
source, including web pages. Since the lists are archived on the web, they
are accessible to address miners.

    Dave Lebling
    aka vizcacha

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