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How They Make Spam
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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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