SPAM and this list

Kevin Fisher kgf at golden.net
Sat May 4 11:38:23 UTC 2002


Thanks for the feedback. :)

I just realized that one of the places I placed my email address was at
the bottom of my page on swiki.net...and sadly, this got harvested by some
spam bot. :(  They even cited that page when they spammed me!

On Sat, May 04, 2002 at 12:10:16AM -0400, Gary Fisher wrote:
> No more than usual here, Kevin.
> 
> Gary
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Kevin Fisher" <kgf at golden.net>
> To: "squeak-dev" <squeak-dev at lists.squeakfoundation.org>
> Sent: Friday, May 03, 2002 11:07 PM
> Subject: OT: SPAM and this list
> 
> 
> > Hi folks:
> > 
> > Just a quick question...has anyone else been receiving a lot of spam
> > in the past few weeks or so?  
> > 
> > I'm just curious...considering Yahoo! has decided to give out subscriber
> > information, and that this list is mirrored by Yahoo, is there any chance
> > we've..erm..been "harvested"?  I can't put my finger on an exact date but
> > my SPAM count has gone up around the time Yahoo decided to start selling
> > subscriber data.  However, I am subscribed to this list via the 
> > squeakfoundation, not Yahoo...
> > 
> > (My ISP does have quite an effective spam filter...TOO effective, as it
> > gobbles up squeak-list email messages as well)
> > 
> > 
> 
> 



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