Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 28 May 1997 08:34:27 -0700 (PDT) | From | Christoph Lameter <> | Subject | Re: New UseNet Gateway under construction |
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The most spam I got was from people scanning my webpages with some sort of gizmo. And they even got on to some mailing list I moderate through this technique which made it even more problematic. Have no idea how to protect against that without making my webpages more difficult for users.
>There is a huge difference, a spammer can more easily acquire tons of >addresses anonymously without having to go through subscribing to >various mailing lists, they just need a news feed. Essentially Usenet >does their work for them, this is why I hate it so much. > >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.
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