Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Path: not-for-mail From: Jehan Newsgroups: gmane.os.cygwin Subject: Re: email harvesting (Was: typo correction) Date: Thu, 11 Jul 2002 08:49:46 -0700 Lines: 11 Message-ID: References: <20020711152759 DOT GC8291 AT redhat DOT com> NNTP-Posting-Host: adsl-64-168-83-170.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1026402506 31621 64.168.83.170 (11 Jul 2002 15:48:26 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet AT main DOT gmane DOT org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 11 Jul 2002 15:48:26 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.1a+) Gecko/20020708 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Thu, Jul 11, 2002 at 01:38:25PM +0000, g. bush wrote: >>(Using a throwaway account, because I think you post addresses >>to the web for spammers to harvest) > > You would think wrong then, bunkee. Why not? Nothing keep them from (1) registring to the mailing list or (2) parsing the archives (the encoding seems pretty straight forward) or (3) reading the gmane.os.cygwin newsgroup on news.gmane.org -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/