Re: [boost] Spamming through Boost mailing list

From: Rene Rivera (grafikrobot_at_[hidden])
Date: 2006-09-23 12:54:20

Daniel James wrote:
> Keith MacDonald wrote:
>> It's not possible to harvest any email addresses from Boost mailing list 
>> messages, unless you are silly enough to type them in a message, perhaps in 
>> your signature.
> 
> I think spammers are generally capable of getting email addresses from a 
> header. But even if they were not, emails are often contained in message 
> bodies, such as in your mail:
>> "Rene Rivera" <grafikrobot_at_[hidden]> wrote in message 
> 
> I hope Rene will forgive you. ;*)

Now the question is can I forgive you, and myself for doing the same :-) 
This is the reason why I use a Gmail account. Lots of spam filtering on it.

PS. To Keith; It would have been more effective to send email to the 
list administrators directly instead of the whole list (see bottom of 
<http://lists.boost.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/boost>).

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