So THAT's where the sudden increase in trash mail came from...
I guess it's too late to issue 'cancel's for all the messages
that went out to usenet with email addresses intact.

R

"James Newton. Admin 3" wrote:
>
> 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>
> >
> >X-Persona: <Piclist>
> >Return-Path: <amyforuno@datingserv.com>
> >Received: from mail-sva.nomadic.co.jp ([210.226.163.115])
> >          by zaphod.audiovisualdevices.com.au (8.9.3/8.8.7) with ESMTP id
> >SAA09809
> >          for <piclist@AUDIOVISUALDEVICES.COM.AU>; Sun, 29 Jul 2001
> 18:07:04
> >+1000
> >Message-Id: <200107290807.SAA09809@zaphod.audiovisualdevices.com.au>
> >Received: from datingserv.com (adsl-65-66-218-125.dsl.hstntx.swbell.net
> >[65.66.218.125]) by mail-sva.nomadic.co.jp with SMTP (Microsoft Exchange
> >Internet Mail Service Version 5.5.2653.13)
> >          id PZVPQRZR; Sun, 29 Jul 2001 15:07:30 +0900
> >From: "Amy Fortuno" <amyforuno@datingserv.com>
> >To: <picilli@mdi.ca>
> >Subject: rate my pictures?
> >Sender: "Amy Fortuno" <amyforuno@datingserv.com>
> >Mime-Version: 1.0
> >Content-Type: text/html; charset="ISO-8859-1"
> >Date: Sun, 29 Jul 2001 01:24:51 -0500
> >Reply-To: "Amy Fortuno" <amyforuno@mymail.com>
> >Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
> >Status:
> >
> >whats up, Rate my pictures on a scale of 1 to 10.
> ><http://www.timecities.com/members/hotgirl/aff.html>CLICK HERE
> >
> ></quote>
> >___________________________________________
> >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
> >New email: avd@audiovisualdevices.com.au
> >___________________________________________
>
> ___________________________________________
> 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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