Spam on birding-aus

[Koren Mitchell <>]

At 14:21 20/08/2005, Andrew Taylor wrote:

> A test address I've put in the
> birding-aus archive has never received
> any spam.  The new birding-aus archive has more elaborate
> protection
> of e-mail addresses.  But its still offline pending the arrival of
> a
> new disk.

This is further evidence that the spammers aren't harvesting individual
addresses from the archives. They are sending the spam to the list
address.

So, how are they doing this and is there a way of stopping it? Presumably
they need to be subscribed in order to send to the list, don't they?
Perhaps a better method of confirming subscription addresses is needed.
(I can't remember whether there is any confirmation, it's been so long
since I subscribed).

Cheers, Koren

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Koren Mitchell
Hong Kong
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