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Re: [cobalt-users] Cobalt list compromised
- Subject: Re: [cobalt-users] Cobalt list compromised
- From: "Zeffie" <cobaltlist@xxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue Jan 20 20:50:01 2004
- Organization: Electronic Consultants Inc.
- List-id: Mailing list for users to share thoughts on Sun Cobalt products. <cobalt-users.list.cobalt.com>
> > I just received a spam addressed to the email addy that is only used
> > for this
> > list so it seems that the list has been harvested. Just wondering if
> > anyone else
> > has had the same experience.
>
> Yes, I've had my address spammed as well. I believe the list software
> removes email addresses, but I've noticed some people fail to remove it
> from their replies on-list. At that point, it gets archived and later
> harvested.
>
> As you probably already know, a good practice is using a special email
> alias only used for the list. That way you can just re-subscribe as a
> different user and block email to the old user.
>
> jay
Recently I saw somebody that was doing a poor job of archiving the user
list... perhaps that got harvested???
I get a lot of spam too when I don't have my filter on...
Zeffie
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