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[David R.Matusiak <dave AT matusiak.org>]

On Thursday, January 29, 2004, at 08:58  PM, Alan MacHett wrote:

> In response to Michael D. Thomas's message(s):
> > - the postings to the list are (and have always been) archived for
> > public reading.
> > - As has been noted before, Google indexes the list.
>
> Speaking of which...
> Who knows the intricacies of spambots or regular expressions?  As 
> Michael
> reminded us, the archives are open to the public, so they also are 
> open to
> spambots.  Our email addresses are "disguised" as plain text, such as:
>
> machett at ibiblio.org
>
> and exist as "mailto:"; links to the list (the easiest target for
> spambots).  Still, I'm wondering and guessing that someone has probably
> written a spambot that searches for similar strings.  Or am I being 
> overly
> paranoid?
>
> just curious,
> Alan

Dude, those weren't sedatives.

And yes, they are all conspiring to spam you right now!
In fact, you may receive a spam as soon as TOMORROW!

dave ;)