[CUBE] Offering email addresses to spammers as a policy

[J.C. Webber III]

mentholiptus wrote:
> 
> On Monday, April 21, 2003, at 10:53  PM, Todd Masco wrote:
> 
> > mentholiptus wrote:
> >> That's fine, because I don't care. I was just commenting on how I've
> >> noticed the same spam that gnarlodious had,
> >
> > But because of the context, you were implying agreement that the 
> > address had been obtained through this list.
> >
> > Laurie very effectively debunked that claim, even if she overstated 
> > your involvement in the process.
> >
> > The notion that "ASCII encoding" email addresses will stop spammers is 
> > not credible.  Sure, it'll stop some of them, but not all - most 
> > text-based browsers will automatically convert it to the email address 
> > without the user ever knowing how the source appeared.
> >
> > For example, if you have lynx try:
> >
> > 	lynx http://www.gnarlodious.com/Opener.html -dump > 
> > SearchForEMailAddrs.txt
> >
> > And you'll see the text email address there in the file 
> > SearchForEMailAddrs.txt, easily harvested by spammers.
> >
> > 	-- Todd
> 
> 
> Why are you so anti the possibility that the spam DID come from here? 
> Maybe it did, yet, maybe it didn't. Either way, I've also been getting 
> spam lately. And we're both on this list...so I felt like offering that 
> up.
> 
> Why do claims need to be debunked anyway? If they do, then PROVE that 
> it DIDN'T come from this list.

If it came due to this list we'd all be getting this spam you talk about.
I'm not getting it.

-- 
J.C. Webber III       
Technical Lead, Unix System Administrator
jcw at kingoblio.com (home) www.kingoblio.com