Just FYI.

James Newton, PICList Admin #3
mailto:jamesnewton@piclist.com
1-619-652-0593 phone
http://www.piclist.com

----- Original Message -----
From: David Duffy <avd@audiovisualdevices.com.au>
To: James Newton. Admin 3 <jamesnewton@piclist.com>
Sent: Sunday, July 29, 2001 19:20
Subject: Re: PicList Mining


At 07:08 PM 29/07/01 -0700, you wrote:
>Yeah, thanks for the heads up.
>
>There was a period of time when someone was feeding PICList content to a
>news feed (comp.arch.embedded.piclist) with the email addresses intact.
News
>feeds are big targets for SPAM miners.
>
>We did see the value in having our content readable by news fans, but
>couldn't allow the emails to go out like that... luckily, the guy that was
>feeding it was willing and able to implement an email obfuscation routine
>that randomly inserts different junk into the email addresses.
>
>It should be safe from automated mining (and it is all automated). But in
>the mean time, we leaked a lot of SPAM bait and our members will get bit.
>
>Sorry.

It's not your fault - damn spammers!

>Is it ok if I forward this to the list as well?

No problem...

>James Newton, PICList Admin #3
>mailto:jamesnewton@piclist.com
>1-619-652-0593 phone
>http://www.piclist.com
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: David Duffy <avd@uq.net.au>
>To: <jamesnewton@piclist.com>
>Sent: Sunday, July 29, 2001 02:27
>Subject: PicList Mining
>
>
>Hi James,
>Looks like the list has been mined again - I got this one
>addressed to the email account I only use for the PicList.
>Thought you might like to know.  :-)   BTW, glad to hear
>that you got some more donations to help with the list.
>Regards...
><quote>
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>Subject: rate my pictures?
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>whats up, Rate my pictures on a scale of 1 to 10.
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>___________________________________________
>David Duffy        Audio Visual Devices P/L
>U8, 9-11 Trade St, Cleveland 4163 Australia
>Ph: +61 7 38210362   Fax: +61 7 38210281
>New Web: www.audiovisualdevices.com.au
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David Duffy        Audio Visual Devices P/L
U8, 9-11 Trade St, Cleveland 4163 Australia
Ph: +61 7 38210362   Fax: +61 7 38210281
New Web: www.audiovisualdevices.com.au
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