[AusNOG] list scraping for spam?

[Skeeve Stevens]

Scrapers have been collecting addresses from mailman archives (reassembling
the blah at blah) for years now,


...Skeeve


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On Mon, Nov 30, 2015 at 11:40 AM, Matthew Moyle-Croft <mmc at mmc.com.au>
wrote:

>
> >
> > Last, I don't get much list-scraping spammers on other lists.
> > Is there anything done different in AUSNOG archives than other
> > lists?
> >
> > scott
> >
>
> Shouldn’t be - the official archive does do the usual mailman obfuscation
> (removes @ to make it hard to just scrape etc).  But mailman could be
> sufficiently common that spammers have developed regex to deal with that.
>
> It could also be unrelated to AUSNOG just to prove that correlation !=
> causation.
>
> MMC
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