Re: Thinking outside the box

Chris Lewis <[email protected]> Mon, 18 Mar 2013 23:23:37 -0400
Newsgroups gmane.ietf.asrg
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 13-03-18 10:46 PM, Seth wrote:
>> It's probably not worth their effort. Big lists are still small from a
>> spammer's point of view. I guess it would be much easier for them to
>> just subscribe to the list.
> 
> And they often do, and send (in one message) to a dozen googlegropes or
> yahoogropes (though I don't recall seeing much of that lately).

Haven't seen anybody deliberately doing it since Crazy Kevin Lipsitz,
the Tempting Tearouts spammer.  And that was a long time ago.

But, mailing lists get hit all the time.  There are all sorts of mailing
lists that have become abandoned wastegrounds of spam.