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RE: [Asrg] 2a. Analysis - Address Harvesting - Chain Letters

2003-09-04 06:37:53
At 7:05 AM -0500 9/3/03, Christopher Bird wrote:
Now how does the spammer get me harvested as a result of this? I am not

I don't see it as being very useful for formal collection of addresses. On the other hand, some of those forwarded messages do end up on bulletin boards and the like, so stripping out the addresses is always a good idea.

Of course the article takes the "never open it" approach, which is not real useful. Right up there with "don't trust attachments from strangers" which still seems to be bizarrely repeated in the press as though those were the only things that were dangerous, despite the obvious fact that viruses tend to come from *friends*.
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Kee Hinckley
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I'm not sure which upsets me more: that people are so unwilling to accept
responsibility for their own actions, or that they are so eager to regulate
everyone else's.

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