List mail must be at an all time low to get paranoid about addresses from new subscribers. I thought this list was for assistance in list problems not potential ones. Life is too short to try and guess who is the big bad subscriber in advance. On Thu, Mar 8, 2012 at 3:43 PM, Dave Naylor <davidcnaylor@gmail.com> wrote: > > What a great way to harvest e-mail addresses! > > Subscribe to as many mailing lists as possible and then collect all > the subscribers' addresses from received mail. A simple program > could be written to do this without actually having to read a single > message. Furthermore you never have to *send* a message so > moderation doesn't prevent this. > > Beware for what the future portends.... > > Cheers! -- Dave > > -- > David Naylor, Halton Hills, Ontario, Canada. > --- > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > LISTOWNERS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message -- ~~~~~ Take care, Kathie Harrison Lancaster Co., NEGenWeb http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~nelancas/
He/She/It joined my Yarber list which is pretty much dead...whatever they do is bound to be something! But if they are there to harvest there ain't nuffin to harvest! LOL Lainee -----Original Message----- From: Kathie Harrison Sent: Thursday, March 08, 2012 4:23 PM To: listowners@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [LO] strange address subbing List mail must be at an all time low to get paranoid about addresses from new subscribers. I thought this list was for assistance in list problems not potential ones. Life is too short to try and guess who is the big bad subscriber in advance. On Thu, Mar 8, 2012 at 3:43 PM, Dave Naylor <davidcnaylor@gmail.com> wrote: > > What a great way to harvest e-mail addresses! > > Subscribe to as many mailing lists as possible and then collect all > the subscribers' addresses from received mail. A simple program > could be written to do this without actually having to read a single > message. Furthermore you never have to *send* a message so > moderation doesn't prevent this. > > Beware for what the future portends.... > > Cheers! -- Dave