Re: Stopping spam

[Stuart Grimshaw <stuart@xxxxxxx>]

On Saturday 15 June 2002 11:07 am, Mike Griffiths wrote:
> Thanks Stuart
> But I was referring to the fact that Yahoo subscribe you to mailing
lists
> I had turned this off but I think now they have reset it
> Its quite well hidden but there was a thread here on where to find
it
> For the life of me I can find neither
> Mike

ah right, sorry :-)

You mean Yahoo subscribe you to advertisers mailing lists without your 
consent?

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Stuart Grimshaw [mailto:stuart@xxxxxxx]
> Sent: 15 June 2002 10:53
> To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [ukha_d] Stopping spam
>
> On Friday 14 June 2002 11:55 pm, Mike Griffiths wrote:
> > Can anyone remember how to see if Yahoo are adding your Email
address to
> > advertisers
>
> Well, all a spammer has to do is subscribe to a mailing list, then
they can
> see a list of subscribers. What I do (apart from the ukha list) is
append a
> little suffix to my email addres,
>
> stuart.ms@xxxxxxx
> stuart.pgsql@ etc
>
> This way I can see which mailing lists (or newsgroups usually) are
being
> trolled for addresses to spam.

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Stuart Grimshaw <stuart@xxxxxxx>
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