[Fsfe-ie] Re: Spammers pulling addresses from these groups

[Niall Douglas]

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On 10 Jan 2004 at 10:08, James Heald wrote:

> > I've already lost s_fsfeurope to spammers, I really don't want to
> > have to move to s_fsfeurope3 :(
> 
> Maybe the spammers will now recognise and harvest "a at b.org" ?

So far they don't seem to try to defeat the trivial mangling mailman 
performs. I'm guessing it's because techies use mailing lists and 
thus have strong spam filters installed - therefore there's no return 
on spamming them. And even though there's little cost to spamming, 
there is the logistical cost of spamming people with zero chance of 
return (you could be spamming others instead with the same 
bandwidth).

Cheers,
Niall





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