Re: Thinking outside the box
Chris Lewis <[email protected]> Mon, 18 Mar 2013 23:23:37 -0400
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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.