"Anthony Atkielski" <anthony(_at_)atkielski(_dot_)com> wrote:
AA> Spammers obtain e-mail addresses from Web sites, USENET,
AA> discussion forums, and the like. Secret strings would
AA> not be posted to any of these, so no automated harvesting
AA> of the strings would be possible. Just leaving the
AA> string in an e-mail addresses to a number of recipients
AA> would not be a problem, because spammers would not be
AA> intercepting such e-mails (or any e-mails, for that
AA> matter). As long as the string is not posted in a place
AA> where spammers can harvest it, they won't get it.
But spammers DO sometimes subscribe to mailing lists, for the purpose of
harvesting addresses.
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