[free-sklyarov] Re: spam

[Christopher R. Maden]

At 18:13 18-08-2001, Brooklyn Linux Solutions wrote:
>The minute I joined this mailing list I started to recieved 3 to 5 spams a
>day as opposed to ZERO.
>
>Is the lists membership currently available though an email command?

I was trying not to reply, since this is off-topic:

The spam is not being sent to the list.  If it were, it would be prefixed 
with [free-sklyarov].  It isn't, so it's not.

Spammers are harvesting the addresses of those who have posted to the 
list.  The list is archived on the Web, and every poster's e-mail address 
is given in their archived posts.  Any spambot could (and has, apparently) 
easily harvest these addresses.

There is nothing the list managers can do any more, except possibly take 
down the archive to limit further harvesting.

-crism
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