i've had my list for only about 3 weeks, and that address was on the list when i took over.  i have just the one list. scot In a message dated 3/8/2012 9:03:01 AM Pacific Standard Time, wyants@sasktel.net writes: > Not that we need any more instances, but I have checked back in my > subscribes for the past month, and have found five subscriptions by > miguelmigsplus@gmail.com ... two are on moderately active lists, and three > > on quite inactive lists. Very Odd. All are now on moderate, thanks to the > information provided by the LO List, > > PSW

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. ---

You could do the same quite easily by using the lists archives Why doesn't it happen on a grand scale? To much work as your suggestion would be, there are easier ways so why would they make life difficult for themselves ? Seems like there are some paranoid people out there Nivard Ovington in Cornwall (UK) > 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.

On 8 Mar 2012 Nivard Ovington wrote: > You could do the same quite easily by using the lists archives WRONG!! -- addresses in the archives are obfuscated so need decoding. -- how mechanize downloading archived messages? -- archived addresses may no longer be valid -- spammers pay more for known-active addresses. Obviously it can be done using the archives but not "easily" and certainly not better than using live messages. Cheers! -- Dave -- David Naylor, Halton Hills, Ontario, Canada. ---