On Sat, 27 Apr 1996, Sentiono Leowinata wrote:
I wonder how they can get the e-mail address? Our finger daemon are blocked. Many un-broadcast e-mail addresses (the account never send any e-mails to anyone) are in the database. How?
It's a sad fact that many unscrupulous(sp?) writers of WWW pages use non-visilble "on load" HTML to record what the web browser thinks the email address of the person browsing the page, and, I presume sell this info to the junk email producers. Part of the WhoWhere archives could have come from such sources. (personally my address in netscape is stop.stealing@addresses.you.CENSORED) If one really set ones mind to it, I guess that grepping through mailing list archives for addresses, and using a webcrawler to search for MAILTO= would lead to many thousands, or even hundreds of thousands, of addresses. On the plus side, the search engine will not let "*","\*","?*" and so be used, and there are no real matches for "root", apart from stuff like "Bob Root" etc. -- Gus <angus@bmsysltd.demon.co.uk> |-|PGP Fingerprint = 73 83 C0 EA 2E A6 00 3E http://www.thepulse.co.uk/angus |=|(Key on request) 08 B1 19 0D 8B BE 87 B9 CIS 100545.720 |+| "Linux - You know you want to." | "fuck" |Advertising/Promotional email will result in a campaign of hatred and abuse|