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RE: Email harvesting from the list

Subject: RE: Email harvesting from the list
From: Kat Nagel <kat -dot- lists -at- gmail -dot- com>
To: techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com
Date: Thu, 16 Nov 2006 22:46:58 -0500

Martinek, Carla wrote:

I received the following email. Note that "Larry Salas" states he saw
my query on this list. [snip] Has anyone else received one of these emails?

Yes. In fact, I received five of them, all referring to my 'queries' but with different sources mentioned in each email. He's collecting names from a number of lists, apparently.

I'm not sure what can be done about it, though, short of kicking him off the list.

Salas apparently did his harvesting the hard way, by actually reading the messages. He was actually subscribed to at least three of the lists where he got my addresses, and he sent his marketing pitch to the unique return addresses I use for a couple of the lists. So further munging of addresses in the archives won't prevent him --- and others like him --- from sending this kind of annoying crud. The complete From address appears in every email message I receive from the list, regardless of what appears in the archives. All he has to do is cut and paste.

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RE: Email harvesting from the list: From: Andrew Warren

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