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Re: [ATM] re spam
Chris Rowland wrote:
>
> This is only the case for groups to which you are subscribed and logged on.
spammers subscribe to mailing lists just to harvest the archived addresses. How
are you going to defeat that? Strip all addresses from all messages so nobody
can gain access to somebody else's address? Kind of defeats the purpose of an
archive.
> This means that someone wanting to harvest email addresses from a Yahoo
> group has to start by registering and being accepted by the group. Most
> groups control this and identify genuine applicants before allowing them
> to register and this will keep the majority of the spammers out.
but if any spammer gets in, they resell addresses to each other.
>
> The ATM list - the archives that is - doesn't even try and people seem
> to resent the suggestion that they should do so. They seem to think that
> it doesn't matter, that spammers will get their email addresses anyway.
> This may be true but when a door is left open then there isn't much
> point in checking to see if the lock was picked before the burglary.
that's a bucket of fertilizer. The archive do try. so let me put it to you
this way, if you are not willing to write code, or fund the writing of code,
please let the rest of us get back to the issue of telescope making. Because if
you aren't willing to put your money where your mouth is, you just complaining.
So which will be, code, dollars, or quiet?
>
> As I see it the ATM list owes me a duty of care of my personal
> information that I've provided as a condition of subscribing and not
> only have they have failed in this duty but they don't even think they
> should.
you know, with that attitude, I think to be really good if the atm list no
longer archived anything. just nuke the archives and let it go at that.
>
> Wake Up chaps! Its 2007! This is the Internet!
Code, dollars, no archive ever, or quiet? nothing gets done for free.
---eric
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