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About attachments from/to the list, John Posada [mailto:JPosada -at- book -dot- com]
said:
> I don't think that's the issue. mail addresses are being
> harvested from
> sources outside the immediate list, than sent outside the
> lit. I get 100+
> per day and none of them come from the list.
Yeah, I don't recall attachments coming through the list as
being any problem. Of course, I have been relying on the
corporate protection and may have just failed to notice a
bunch of messages that were cleaned on their way to me...
I don't even open attachments from my brother, unless they
are of a type that I can view in Linux (after forwarding from
my Microsoft box).
But still, I think that the big problem is that the list
and the addresses are public. I'm sure it's a holdover from
olden days, when spam and security were not everyday concerns.
Today, I doubt that any of us starting a list would mirror
to usenet. We'd probably archive with addresses stripped or
mangled a bit, to defeat harvesters.
I wonder what percentage of list members participate exclusively,
or even primarily via newsgroups, as opposed to direct e-mail.
(Yes, I know a handful of people will quickly pipe up that they
do only, or *can* only get the list as a newsgroup, but the
question is how representative those few would be... given a
membership in the thousands.)
/kevin (getting hundreds of spam messages per day AFTER the
corporate cleaners [multiple] do their thing, and
attributing most of those to longtime membership on
this list ... and maybe CE-L)
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