Re: Email Harvesting by First Albany Capital

On 2 Nov 2006, at 00:32, Michael Schwendt wrote:
>
> What makes me wonder is where they've collected the addresses? It must
> have been a different list, since the subscriber list of taroon- 
> list is
> private, and I haven't posted to this list for a long time.

Yes, but the list is archived (since October 2003):

https://www.redhat.com/archives/taroon-list/

If you were sneaky, you could download all the .txt.gz files and do  
this:

[sam:~/gz sjs298$] zcat *.txt.gz | egrep "^From:" | egrep -o  
"([[:alnum:]]|-|\.)+@([[:alnum:]]|\.|-)+" | sort | uniq -c | grep wir- 
sind
      15 fedora@wir-sind-****.org

Ooh look, you only made 15 posts during the life of the list... I win...

[sam:~/gz sjs298$] zcat *.txt.gz | egrep "^From:" | egrep -o  
"([[:alnum:]]|-|\.)+@([[:alnum:]]|\.|-)*" | sort | uniq -c | grep  
sam.sharpe
      25 sam.sharpe-AQ/[email protected]

(and the winnner is... Ed Wilts, with a staggering 468 posts... Well  
done Ed!)

I am not a spammer, but I am extremely sneaky - and I bet the spammer  
is just as sneaky as me, if we all got one of these messages...

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