RE: [Asrg] 2a. Analysis - Address Harvesting - Chain Letters

[Kee Hinckley <nazgul@somewhere.com>]

At 7:05 AM -0500 9/3/03, Christopher Bird wrote:
> Now how does the spammer get me harvested as a result of this? I am not
I don't see it as being very useful for formal collection of 
addresses.  On the other hand, some of those forwarded messages do 
end up on bulletin boards and the like, so stripping out the 
addresses is always a good idea.

Of course the article takes the "never open it" approach, which is 
not real useful.  Right up there with "don't trust attachments from 
strangers" which still seems to be bizarrely repeated in the press as 
though those were the only things that were dangerous, despite the 
obvious fact that viruses tend to come from *friends*.
--
Kee Hinckley
http://www.messagefire.com/          Anti-Spam Service for your POP Account
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I'm not sure which upsets me more: that people are so unwilling to accept
responsibility for their own actions, or that they are so eager to regulate
everyone else's.

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