Re: Email Harvesting by First Albany Capital

On Thu, 2 Nov 2006 01:20:12 +0000, Sharpe, Sam J 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):

Ah yes, harvesting made easy. It has escaped my memory that the addresses
in the archives are still not obfuscated.

> [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...

Hehe, blame Fedora and my other address. ;)

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