OT: getting spammed to my list address

[Brad Knowles]

At 10:59 AM -0400 2005-04-14, <aklist_bind at enigmedia.com> wrote:

>                                                           Is that a function
>  of spammers setting up bogus accounts on bind-users and harvesting the
>  address of anyone posting?

	I'm sure that some of them are doing that.

>                             Or are posts on this list being picked up in
>  archives and are exploitable that way?

	Everything posted to this list gets cross-posted to the 
comp.protocols.dns.bind newsgroup, so all the spammers that watch all 
the posts come across all the newsgroups will also get you.

>                                          Or both? I can change addresses and
>  resubscribe but it's kind of a drag to have to do it every two weeks <g>.

	You'd need to do it for every single post.

>  I have unique addresses subscribed to > 20 user lists and none of them were
>  picked up by spammers as quickly as this address (if at all).

	Then you haven't been on some of the lists that I have.

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