Mailing list address harvested for spamming

Michael A. Peters mpeters at domblogger.net
Sun Dec 2 02:27:59 EET 2018


On 12/01/2018 04:22 PM, Noel Butler wrote:
> On 02/12/2018 10:16, Michael A. Peters wrote:
> 
>> On 12/01/2018 04:09 PM, Noel Butler wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> Which is why it annoys me that some people on mailing lists feel the 
>>> need to reply directly, rather than through mailing list.
>>
>> Sometimes it is the MUA that is poorly designed that causes this.
> I could have sworn I said that, oh yes, I see I did
>>
>> Also, some lists set the "reply to" with the sender rather than the list.
> Also covered (poorly configured)
>>
>> Further, some user agents have a separate "reply" for replying to list 
>> instead of original sender but human error results in wrong being 
>> clicked. That's happened to me - causing me to accidentally reply to 
>> wrong address.
> 
> 

My apologies, I honestly did not see it but I just looked and it is 
there. Maybe the bracket in parenthesis resulted in my mind mentally 
skipping it or something.


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