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Hi all... Darryl, in the role of list "mom" here.
I got a report of someone receiving spam at an address that he says
was *only* used to subscribe to WinMac.
I know that *I* haven't sold the list, nor is it available for
download from the list server.
However, since the archives of the list are available on a
publicly-accessible website (http://www.darryl.com/winmac/), it's
certainly possible that addresses of posters have been "harvested" from
there.
Personally, I get plenty of spam from all kinds of sources. I
don't have time to worry about where it's from - I just use
SpamBouncer (http://www.spambouncer.org/) to filter it out,
and then I trash it.
If people think it's necessary, before archiving posts, I could
munge the addresses so that every @ symbol is replaced with (at).
That might keep the clueless harvesters away for a short time (until
they figure out to simply replace (at) with @).
But what do y'all think?
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