Re: Publicly available mbox archives of debian mailing lists + Bug#161440
On Friday 29 April 2005 06:50 am, David Mandelberg wrote:
> On Fri, 2005-04-29 at 03:53 -0500, Bill Allombert wrote:
> > As far as spam harvester are concerned, they can just subscribe to the
> > mailing-lists to get the mail headers.
>
> I think if they subscribe to the mailing list and use it for abuse they
> can easily be banned, whereas they can't be banned from a public archive
> very easily.
How would you know which subscriber was harvesting e-mail addresses?
Josh
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