Date: Fri, 2 May 1997 13:33:49 -0700 (PDT) From: "Jonathan M. Bresler" <jmb> To: andrew@erlenstar.demon.co.uk (Andrew Gierth) Cc: terry@lambert.org, gclarkii@main.gbdata.com, chuckr@mat.net, FreeBSD-Hackers@freebsd.org, jmb@freefall.freebsd.org Subject: Re: SPAM target Message-ID: <199705022033.NAA21364@hub.freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <87ohatwwjz.fsf@erlenstar.demon.co.uk> from "Andrew Gierth" at May 2, 97 07:36:32 pm
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Andrew Gierth wrote: > > >>>>> "Terry" == Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> writes: > > >> I looks like they are searching WWW pages for addresses because I got > >> one at my FreeBSD.org address... > > Terry> They are also searching list archives (apparently). I got > Terry> some mail to an old address from which I had posted to the > Terry> list, but which I had never used for any other purposes. > > Stuff on this list is percolating back onto Usenet; I have a permanent > query going at reference.com for everything with my name in the From: > header, and some of my posts here have shown up. It looks like sites > that have gatewayed the list onto an internal or local hierarchy, and > then allowed it to leak from there. this is not surprising, we have let people subscribe unidirectional mail to news gateways to the FreeBSD mailing lists. this allows us to provide additional sources of information to FreeBSD users who are not subscribed to the mailing lists. it also allows people to harvest the resulting posts. jmb
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