| From: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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| To: | Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> |
| Cc: | Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>, Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>, PostgreSQL www <pgsql-www(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: email obscuring |
| Date: | 2009-09-25 21:14:20 |
| Message-ID: | 3914.1253913260@sss.pgh.pa.us |
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Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 12:02 PM, Alvaro Herrera
> <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com> wrote:
>> Something I have learned about spammers lately is that it is enough for
>> you to subscribe to a list and they will start sending stuff to you.
>> You don't need to post anything. I'm not sure that email obscuring in
>> archives of any use anymore.
> It can't hurt, though. By what mechanism would they obtain the
> subscribers to an email list?
Ask the list bot for the list of subscribers :-(
I think most lists are not configured to hand that out to just anyone,
but the majority will let a subscriber see it. So, subscribe from
any legitimate address, suck out the list, unsubscribe. A bit manual
but not exactly hard.
regards, tom lane
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