Re: [Boost-users] Spamming through boost???

From: John Maddock (john_at_[hidden])
Date: 2006-12-07 04:31:33

Sebastian Redl wrote:
> Ovanes Markarian wrote:
>> Now I really think, there must be email servers inbetween, which
>> simply log the sender and put them to the spamming lists.
> We had this discussion a few months ago.
> In short, the easiest way to get at your e-mail address is to simply
> register with the boost list, and then have a bot listening and
> collecting. It's pretty much the same thing that some list archives
> do. You can't really prevent it, either. Unlike spammers, such
> accounts don't really make their presence known. Should all accounts
> that just listen and never post be banned?

In addition the Boost mailing list is available via a newsgroup bridge, and 
gets archived on the web, indexed by Google etc (although I confess a Google 
search for your address didn't show anything up).  As Sebastian has already 
said, these spammers are cunning folks whow really will stop at nothing to 
get these addresses :-(

You