From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri May 2 12:57:13 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id MAA19477 for hackers-outgoing; Fri, 2 May 1997 12:57:13 -0700 (PDT) Received: from punt-1.mail.demon.net (relay-7.mail.demon.net [194.217.242.9]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id MAA19465 for ; Fri, 2 May 1997 12:57:06 -0700 (PDT) Received: from erlenstar.demon.co.uk ([194.222.144.22]) by punt-1.mail.demon.net id aa0522259; 2 May 97 19:36 BST Received: (from andrew@localhost) by erlenstar.demon.co.uk (8.8.5/8.8.5) id TAA11229; Fri, 2 May 1997 19:36:32 +0100 (BST) To: Terry Lambert Cc: Gary Clark II , chuckr@mat.net, FreeBSD-Hackers@freebsd.org, jmb@freefall.freebsd.org Subject: Re: SPAM target References: <199705021820.LAA09119@phaeton.artisoft.com> From: Andrew Gierth In-Reply-To: Terry Lambert's message of Fri, 2 May 1997 11:20:36 -0700 (MST) X-Mayan-Date: Long count = 12.19.4.2.6; tzolkin = 10 Cimi; haab = 4 Uo X-Attribution: AG Date: 02 May 1997 19:36:32 +0100 Message-ID: <87ohatwwjz.fsf@erlenstar.demon.co.uk> Lines: 19 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.3/Emacs 19.34 Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk >>>>> "Terry" == Terry Lambert 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. I can track down more information if necessary. -- Andrew.