[ATM] SPAM AGAIN!

[David B. Toth]

At 12:45 PM 6/30/2007, Chris Rowland wrote:
>David B. Toth wrote:
>>At 12:06 PM 6/30/2007, Chris Rowland wrote:
>>>I did a search on Google for the email address I use on this group and
>>>the ONLY place it is referred from is the ATM list archives.
>>>
>>>I also use this address for a number of Yahoo groups and they do not
>>>leak. The ATM list does leak, it deliberately publishes addresses and,
>>>because the list requires that the email address is in the header for a
>>>message to be accepted and the archive publishes the headers there isn't
>>>anything users can do about this.
>>>
>>>So the ATM list and archives seem to be responsible for most of the spam
>>>that I, and everyone else on the list gets through this address.
>>Chris: your email address is on EVERY message you post on Yahoo ... 
>>it is just as vulnerable to mining/spamming.
>
>It may be visible to other members of the groups I'm subscribed to 
>but it isn't visible in the yahoo web interface, even on the lists 
>where no membership is required.
>
>This means that passing spam harvesters can't see my email address 
>from Yahoo. They can in the ATM-list.
>
>Just do a Google search on your email address and see what you get - 
>no Yahoo groups, lots of mailman type mailing lists - including ATM-list.
>
>Chris

Well Chris, try turning on the option to VIEW SOURCE and you can see 
all of the headers and addresses in a message ,,,
I moderate 3 Yahoo groups - you can definitely mine them for addresses.

Dave