Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 28 May 1997 14:25:20 -0400 (EDT) | From | pstewart <> | Subject | Re: New UseNet Gateway under construction |
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I seen a product not too long ago (can't remember where as I had no interest in buying it for $60)... but it walked as many web pages as you would like it to and it grabbed *all* email addresses of *all* web pages it could find.... they suggested starting at a site like http://www.yahoo.com where it would transverse every yahoo site listed in theory...
Paul
-- Out the modem, through the SPARC, down the T3, off the router, past the frame-relay... nothing but Net.
On 28 May 1997, Andi Kleen wrote:
> "David S. Miller" <davem@caip.rutgers.edu> writes: > > > A spammer needs to go through some external amount of effort to grab > > things off of a mailing list archive site (be it web based or > > whatever), but with usenet it requires no effort, they just get it, > > and since this is the easiest mechanism it is the one they are most > > likely to use. > > The efforts to write/run a usenet scanner and to write a web spider > that digs out mail addresses from all web pages it visits should > be comparable. And I'm pretty sure there are already spammers out > there who do this. > > -Andi. >
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