Re: Email Harvesting by First Albany Capital

On 11/9/06, Ed Wilts <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 11/9/2006 2:34 PM, � wrote:
> > Barry Brimer wrote:
> >> I am not accusing Red Hat of violating their privacy policy.  I was
> >> simply stating that I happen to have received the email in question to
> >> an email address which is used explicity for Linux related mailing
> >> lists, therefore suggesting that the source of the email addresses

> This won't do a lot of good for people who really want them.  Grab the
> mailing list archives at AIMS
> (http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=taroon-list&m=116310448631811&w=2) and
> you can see it's pretty easy for a bot to rewrite a header like:
>
> From:       Máirín_Duffy <duffy () redhat ! com>
>
> The simple fact of the matter is that if an email address is used on a
> public list, you can assume that somebody somewhere will figure out a
> way to get it.  It's not that hard for somebody to sign on to the last,
> grab the archives, and the unsubscribe.  This isn't Red Hat's problem to
> deal with.
>

Actually these days, harvesters will just sign up on a mailling list
and watch themselves.. then will just grab the data. They don't even
go through the archives as they want 'up-to-date' addresses for these
kinds of scams (I call it a scam because I havent gotten my wine yet!)
 I found this on a couple of lists that I moderate that the archives
were only available to the administrator.. The bigger problem is that
there is no way you are going to find out who the sleepers are. 98% of
people on the mailling lists I moderate lurk..



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