Paul
-- Out the modem, through the SPARC, down the T3, off the router, past the frame-relay... nothing but Net.
On 28 May 1997, Andi Kleen wrote:
> "David S. Miller" <davem@caip.rutgers.edu> writes: > > > A spammer needs to go through some external amount of effort to grab > > things off of a mailing list archive site (be it web based or > > whatever), but with usenet it requires no effort, they just get it, > > and since this is the easiest mechanism it is the one they are most > > likely to use. > > The efforts to write/run a usenet scanner and to write a web spider > that digs out mail addresses from all web pages it visits should > be comparable. And I'm pretty sure there are already spammers out > there who do this. > > -Andi. >