From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 25925 invoked from network); 15 Dec 1997 10:17:55 -0000 Received: from math.gatech.edu (list@130.207.146.50) by ns1.primenet.com.au with SMTP; 15 Dec 1997 10:17:55 -0000 Received: (from list@localhost) by math.gatech.edu (8.8.5/8.8.5) id FAA13344; Mon, 15 Dec 1997 05:07:16 -0500 (EST) Resent-Date: Mon, 15 Dec 1997 05:05:44 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <199712151005.FAA13296@math.gatech.edu> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0zeta 7/24/97 To: zsh-users@math.gatech.edu Subject: Re: zsh lists being used for spam-gathering? In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 12 Dec 1997 13:49:34 EST." <19971212134934.13866@astaroth.nit.gwu.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Mon, 15 Dec 1997 10:06:03 +0000 From: Bruce Stephens Resent-Message-ID: <"iTZOk1.0.wF3.t3Gbq"@math> Resent-From: zsh-users@math.gatech.edu X-Mailing-List: archive/latest/1203 X-Loop: zsh-users@math.gatech.edu X-Loop: zsh-workers@math.gatech.edu Precedence: list Resent-Sender: zsh-workers-request@math.gatech.edu sweth@astaroth.nit.gwu.edu said: > if i were to start spamming people, actually, listservs are one of > the first places i would turn to for addresses--since list-moms tend > to prune out defunct addresses fairly quickly, the spammer would have > a much higher ratio of valid-to-invalid addresses. Well, Peter's commented that the zsh list software won't give out addresses. In any case, I wonder how many addresses there are that are gettable from list servers? I'd guess it would be perhaps O(10^4), perhaps O(10^5). If I believe some of the spam I get offering email lists, O(10^6) is the kind of figure that's typical. Mailing lists just strike me as too small to be worth the effort of writing the software to interrogate them all.