Bill Stent wrote:
I don't believe this is so. If the mailing list (that is, the
individual addresses on the list) had been harvested, those who post,
including me, would be getting spam individually. While I do get some
spam, I'm not getting the same set that I receive through B-A. What is
happening is the m("vicnet.net.au","birding-aus");"> adress has made it onto some
spam lists, not the individual addresses.
Hi Bill et al.
I'm afraid you might be mistaken Bill (and lucky!). I recently, and
inadvertantly, conducted a live experiment on Birding-Aus.
Normally I mail BA from work, and I receive lots of spam - much of
which I attribute (without much evidence) to spammers harvesting
addresses from BA - probably from the archive(s) - the ISP's filter and
my Thunderbird e-mail package filter out just about all of it.
A few weeks ago I e-mailed BA from my relatively new home account -
where since opening it in January I've had no spam at all - the address
hasn't gone out on to mailing lists or mail archives. Within about 2
days of mailing to BA, I started to receive spam at home. It's hardly
a completely watertight methodology!!! ... but enough to convince me
that spammers harvest individual addresses from the BA archives.
I can't explain the inconsistency of experience between Bill and me.
L.
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Lawrie Conole
Principal Ecologist
Ornithology & Terrestrial Ecology
Ecology Australia Pty. Ltd.
Flora and Fauna Consultants
88B Station Street
FAIRFIELD VIC 3078 Australia
E-mail: m("ecologyaustralia.com.au","lconole");">
Internet: http://www.ecologyaustralia.com.au/
Ph: (03) 9489 4191; Mob: (0419) 588 993
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