On Mon, 16 Jun 2003 20:43:51 EDT, Dean Anderson said: > believe it to be problem. Coincidentally, only lists frequented by such > radical antispammers seem to suffer these problems. This is no more surprising than the realization that DNA forensic evidence is only being found by labs that have the capability of DNA forensic analysis, or that Uri Geller wasn't debunked until he happened to run into James Randi. If (for instance) a list of poodle enthusiasts gets trawled for addresses, and said list doesn't have any radical anti-spammers on it, then the victims of the subsequent spamming runs will merely say "Oh Foo. I wonder how they got my address". If one of the subscribers is a radical anti-spammer who is subscribed to the list using the address k-rad-poodle-cookie-239DfjIqM@isp.com, and said address gets spammed, the radical anti-spammer knows *VERY* well *exactly* how the spammers got the address..... When only radical anti-spammers are deploying methods for tracing how a spammer gets addresses, *of course* only lists that have said anti-spammers on it will have this problem.
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