Re: A new twist on address trawling

Paul Bambury (pbambury@magna.com.au)
Wed, 29 Oct 1997 20:00:32 +0000

I'm interested in where & how spammers get e-mail addresses & checked
out the URLs in your posted e-mail, but the site didn't make much sense
to me. Maybe I'm a bit clueless but would you mind explaining what's
going on with this site.

I've read Roger Clarke's material on spam & have been generally
following the spam debate in the US so I understand that listservs such
as Majordomo can deliver a list of subscribers with the command "whois",
are you saying this conatactdata site is a meta-list of the subscribers
of a number of listserv discussion groups?

It looks like a service to list your URL on a list of links. I'm not
sure why anyone would pay for this, there are pleny of free link lists
around.

Anyway I'd be obliged if your could illuminate me on this.

Thanks

Paul