How They Make Spam
The Whorl list — 1 messages, 1 voices, 23 Feb 2001
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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



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