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Listserver and SPAM

To: "T.J. Higgins" <tjhiggin@chris.iss.ingr.com>,
Subject: Listserver and SPAM
From: Jarrid Gross <JGross@econolite.com>
Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2000 14:26:14 -0700
Ok,

Now Ive had it.
Spam has just about taken over my computer.
Every day I get 40 to 60 spam emails.
That and 10 to 20 legitimate emails.

The signal to noise ratio is now deafining.


Since I dont subscribe to other list servers, or USENET,
and dont frequent porn sites, the spammers are mining my email
and most likely yours too from the alpine archives.


T.J., I realize that there is not a lot you can do, but I
volunteer that we could retro-actively alter the email addresses
within the archives and make them un-minable.

I could write some code to do a generic substitution of text
containing the @ symbol.

take an archive file full of email addresses like joe_blow@url.net
and turn them into joe_blow(at)url.net and the like.

Anyone have an opinion of the efficacy of this?


Also, while I remmember thumbs up to T.J.


NOLIST

Jarrid Gross


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