[Discuss] One for the Fraud Squad...

[Patrick]

On Thu, 7 Aug 2008 16:06:27 -0700
David Bronaugh wrote:

> DR wrote:
> >
> > I too received one.  The only place I use this address is for the vlug 
> > mailing list.  Does anyone have reason to believe the mailing list 
> > contents  have "escaped"?
> >
> > Deid
> I'm going to go for the simple explanation here, and say this: The VLUG 
> discuss list is publicly archived on the 'net. As such, any spider going 
> for email addresses can slurp them right up. So there's no need for a 
> breach in system security for all the email addresses to be out there on 
> some spammer's list.

True, but the archiving software will do some munging first. 
I guess someone went to the trouble of converting all those
`user at domain's to `user at domain'.


> 
> David

Patrick.
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