Re: LYNX-DEV RMS Titanic

[Michael Warner]

On Fri, 23 May 1997, Al Gilman wrote:

>   From: Jason Baker <address@hidden>
> 
>   On May 23, E Powell wrote:
>   > Hello There,
>   
>   Hmm.  Anyone else starting to find these subscriptions a tad
>   suspicious?  Starting to look to me like somebody is trying to
>   degrade the list by subbing it to as many unrelated lists as
>   possible.
>   
> I thought about the malicious-third-party angle, but mostly rejected
> it as unlikely.
> 
Comment #1: 'Subscription' is irrelevant.  Anyone can post to the list
without being subscribed, no?

Comment #2: Any email address which appears in a Usenet newsgroup or
in a web page is subject to automated harvesting and subsequent
sale/use by the people who compile them into multi-thousand-address
spam mailing lists.  Hence the increasing use of 'remove-to-reply'
elements in Usenet From: headers.

As far as maliciousness goes, at least this guy used what appears to
be a valid return address, which for me moves him out of the category
of 'Truly Evil' and into the 'Clueless' realm.  Most of the email spam
I get has headers mangled from heck-to-breakfast, making it obvious
that the perpetrators realize their hated and reviled status.

Wish I had a solution to offer, but alas...

-- 
Michael Warner 
<address@hidden>

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