[Amps] Spam from Members of this List ...

[Will Matney]

It would be best if the software could strip the whole header, with any e-mail 
address, out of the mail before it posts it to the archive. A harvester looks for
any text string with an @ in it according to what I just read about. That's not
saying all do, but the ones in the article did. The copied text strings are then
placed into a database list and can be called up to be placed in an e-mail.
Most spammers though use an e-mail server that hosts spammers, not the
server where they're actually at.

I have received some e-mails from supposed hams wanting me to add them
to my address book. Those I think are a worm, and I delete every one that
comes into my e-mail. Not one name did I recognize from this list in them,
unless it may have been harvested from the archives from someone way
back I don't know of.

If it's not from someone I've actually had a conversation with, I won't add them
to my address book. That's asking for an infection from one of those e-mails.
When I do add someone, I add them manually.

Best,

Will

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On 8/10/06 at 11:04 AM Administrator wrote:

>Tony writes: 
>
>> Contesting Dot Com publishes ALL of our email addresses IN 
>> THE CLEAR on the archive.  The spammers collect these email 
>> addresses from the archive without having to sign in or do 
>> ANYTHING except grab them and use them. Don't believe me?  
>
>There are two sets of archives for Amps and *all* of the other 
>lists at contesting.com.  One is the "standard" downloadable 
>archives: http://lists.contesting.com/pipermail/amps/ the other 
>set of archives are the "searchable" archives: 
>http://lists.contesting.com/archives//html/Amps/ 
>
>The "normal" archive function of the list software does obscure 
>e-mail addresses and has done so since the feature became available 
>in early 2003.  However, Tony's comments have caused me to do some 
>further research.  The "searchable" archives for *ALL* of the 
>contesting.com lists do provide unobscured e-mail addresses. 
>
>I will be contacting the software maintainers to see if there is 
>an option to obscure e-mail addresses in the searchable archives. 
>Those archives are a separate application and not under the control 
>of the individual list administrators. 
>
>73, 
>
>   ... Administrator 
>       amps at contesting.com 
>  
>
>
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