[CLUE-Talk] anyone else getting spammed? [Fwd: Re: clue.denver.co.us]

[Jed S. Baer]

On Fri, 5 Dec 2003 11:36:25 -0700 (MST)
ockers at ockers.net (Jim Ockers) wrote:

> What I believe has happened is that a spammer has subscribed to the
> list.  Therefore they would receive a copy of every message posted to
> the list.  From those messages they would have each sender's e-mail
> address, which they use to send spam back to each poster.

I doubt it, because the URLs in the body of the e-mail are those in which
the recipient's e-mail address appears. The URL of a specific page in the
mailmain archive isn't apparent from the list traffic.

jed
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