Tom@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
List owners have to watch who they approve when a list becomes a target.
Individual lists are rarely specifically targetted.
Instead, web-crawling spambots send their junk mail to any
address they find while browsing public web pages and usenet
postings. I used to have one address that only appeared on
a web page, but never was used for any outgoing email,
registrations, usenet, etc., and that address got a steady
stream of junk mail from that one web appearance.
Besides canning known spammers, list admins can take steps
such as setting a maximum number of recipients for a
message, and disallowing implicit addressing of the list
(the list has to be in the To: or Cc: headers, which
eliminates much commercial spam).
--
josh@xxxxxxxxx is Joshua Putnam
http://www.phred.org/~josh/
Braze your own bicycle frames. See
http://www.phred.org/~josh/build/build.html
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