Some spammers use "Mail Bots" that read through the HTML code of a web page
for the "mailto" & "href" commands. When they find "mailto", they log the
email address that follows and when they find "href" they add the URL that
follows to a que of web pages to check. A few month back Geocities reported
that a few had gone through their servers. If one of those mail bots hit a
member's page then they could have gotten to the DML pages through a link
or the web ring. Unfortunately, the best way to handle it is to ignore
them. Responding, only validates your email address and increases the
amount of spam you get.
Walter Felix
88½ Dakota Sport 4x4
WWW.GeoCities.Com/~Walter_Felix
-----Original Message-----
From: Jon Steiger <stei0302@cs.fredonia.edu>
To: dakota-truck@buffnet.net <dakota-truck@buffnet.net>
Date: Wednesday, June 16, 1999 12:37 AM
Subject: RE: DML: Score one for anti-spam (No Dak content)
>
> The list server is set up so that only list members can get the list of
>member's addresses, but I suppose its possible that someone could pull
>addresses from the www site. The archives are up there of course, so
>anyone who has posted a message to their list has their address up on the
>site somewhere...
>
> -Jon-
>
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