>From: Laurent Daudelin <laurent.daudelin_at_verizon.net>
>It probably had the [NTLK] in the subject to make you believe it was coming
>from the mailing list. But it was not. However, this guy was able to harvest
>some email addresses from this list and that is what worries me...
Well, it (the virus, or this particular virion anyway :) can parse emails
in your inbox and grab email addresses that way; no no bulk harvesting
needed (ala spammers). If a windows user keeps emails around any
newtontalk posting/email can be harvested. More people should use Macs (or
pine) :)
But it is true that while the archives at www.newtontalk.net have the email
addresses munged to prevent bulk robot harvesting, the searchable archives
do not. So sometime when some spammer runs a robot down that, it could be
messy. As long as it requires a search keyword to be entered to display
any messages that should help defeat some harvesting 'bots.
Brian
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