# How They Make Spam *The Whorl list — 1 messages, 1 voices, 23 Feb 2001* > Exported from an unofficial mirror of a public mailing list. Copyright > in each message remains with the person who wrote it. > Email addresses are obscured as `user at host`, the form the original > archive published. This file was rebuilt from parsed fields rather than > retained headers, so it is faithful in content but not byte-exact. --- ### Dave Lebling *23 Feb 2001, 12:45* > 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 *This is WHORL, for discussion of Gene Wolfe's Book of the Long Sun. ---