Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com To: cygwin@cygwin.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.GC8291@redhat.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@main.gmane.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/