Re: [ATM] SPAM AGAIN!

[Chris Rowland <chris_group_mail@dsl.pipex.com>]

Michael Lindner wrote:
> Chris Rowland wrote:
>> I did a search on Google for the email address I use on this group and 
>> the ONLY place it is referred from is the ATM list archives.
> 
> Same for me, although instead of producing 10 hits (like Bob May's 
> address), mine yielded 618 hits! And yet I get very little spam on this 
> account (about 2 messages/day). If this were the only means spammers had 
> of finding out Bob May's (and other list members') addresses, I should 
> be at the top of every spammer's list.
> 
> I submit that there are other avenues spammers use to find valid email 
> addresses.
> 
> So let's stop griping about spam and start talking about telescopes.

I am truly appalled about how complacent the senior members of this 
group are about their providing email addresses for spammers.

You don't seem to have the slightest concern that you are providing 
totally open access to all our email addresses to anyone who wants them, 
without even the slightest attempt at preventing this.

Your comments about there being other avenues are like saying there 
isn't any point in locking your doors because because some people can 
pick locks.  Its well known that security works because the criminals 
are lazy and will go elsewhere if you make it more difficult.

Nobody needs to go to any trouble to harvest email addresses when you 
provide them with no effort.

I'm not suggesting that this is the only way that spam can get to me 
through this email address but I do think that the ATM list should 
acknowledge that they are part of the problem and try to alleviate 
things rather that the current attitude that can basically be summed up 
as...

Tough.

Chris
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