Re: Junk Mail

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Michael Martinez (michaelm@swcp.com)
Sat, 25 Jan 97 17:01:47 GMT


On 1/24/97 9:35PM, in message <AF0ECD8C-ABCC@204.122.16.186>, "Nick Zitzmann"
<nickzman@eskimo.com> wrote:

> Any other FAQ maintainers out there getting a lot of junk mail? I am, and I
> suspect that the junk mailers are scanning through news.answers or some
> other such groups, getting lots of E-Mail addresses, and then using them.

I primarily use two accounts for posting to Usenet and both get tons of
junk-mail. I have not yet submitted my faqs for approval for the *.answers
groups, so I suspect there are multiple methods of getting addresses. One
would be to subscribe to any open mailing list that supports a "who" command,
send the "who", and then unsubscribe. It's pretty easy to find out about many
of the mailing lists I'm subscribed to.

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