Messages in this thread |  | | | Subject | Re: New UseNet Gateway under construction | | Date | Wed, 28 May 1997 22:37:18 +0200 (MET DST) | | From | (Rogier Wolff) |
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David S. Miller wrote: > > Date: Wed, 28 May 1997 08:02:53 -0700 (PDT) > From: Christoph Lameter <clameter@waterf.org> > > Spammers can also look at the archives of the linux mailing lists > which are found in a lot of places. I cannot see any difference > between a archive and my gating the stuff into usenet. > > There is a huge difference, a spammer can more easily acquire tons of > addresses anonymously without having to go through subscribing to > various mailing lists, they just need a news feed. Essentially Usenet > does their work for them, this is why I hate it so much. > > 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.
There are people selling lists of up to around 30M Email addresses. The guys that do that WILL go through a little trouble to get themselves "the largest" list they can find.
As an experiment I once tested that I could find 100k addresses in about an hour. 10 minutes script-designing and an hour of CPU/disk time. Running that script several days in a row will give you up to 1M addresses, but after that you'll have to start doing more complicated things. Like browsing mailing list archives.
Roger Wolff.
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