Anyone interested in harvesting addresses would simply subscribe to the
various lists. There is no way to prevent this type of abuse. It is a
non-issue. Only certain radical anti-spammers (and those duped by them)
believe it to be problem. Coincidentally, only lists frequented by such
radical antispammers seem to suffer these problems. I guess they've proven
the point: Mail lists can be abused.
Of course, that isn't the same point as "(Type 1) Spammers abuse mail
lists".
--Dean
On Mon, 16 Jun 2003, David Morris wrote:
On Mon, 16 Jun 2003, Michael Froomkin - U.Miami School of Law wrote:
My understanding is that The Mail Archive
(http://www.mail-archive.com/lists.html) will provide free storage for
mailing lists. I think every WG list should be permanetly archived in
this manner.
What a great way to help address harvesters ... one site ... one 'API' to
program against to harvest many valid addresses. This particular archive
example hides email addresses, but it took me less that 5 minutes to
determine how to recover addresses from the page data.
So I don't think the suggested policy is a good idea without much more
effective blocking of access to email addresses.
Dave Morris