[ale] Is this list being mined?

Mon Jul 22 12:42:04 EDT 2002

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Sean Kilpatrick wrote:
> Earlier this morning I received a piece of spam (a taste is copied below)
> and this is the _only_ Linux-based list I am on.
> So I ask the question: 
> Did anyone else get this piece piece of spam?
> Has someone mined the ALE address list?
> Is there any way to know?
> If so, is there any way to make this data harder to swipe?
> 
> I ask out of near total ignorance; all I know about maintaining
> mailing lists would fit in a thimble with plenty of room left
> over for my finger.
> 
> 
> Sean
> 
> 
> ------------------<copied material>------------------
> 
> 
> Date: Mon, 22 Jul 0102 11:27:38 -0500
> From: <Steve at linux.org>
> To: AOL Users
> Reply to: <Steve at linux.org>
> 
> <html>
> <head>
>     
> 
>   <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
>     
> 
>   <meta name="ProgId" content="Word.Document">
>     
> 
>   <meta name="Generator" content="Microsoft Word 10">
>     
> 
>   <meta name="Originator" content="Microsoft Word 10">
>     
> 
>   <meta name="GENERATOR" content="Mozilla/4.72 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; I) 
> [Netscape]">
>   <title>Discover How I Sell Thousands of</title>
> </head>
>   <body bgcolor="#ffffee" link="#0000ff" vlink="#800080" lang="EN-US" 5i="">
>   
> 
> <div class="Section1"><span>Dear Friend,</span> 
> <p><span>If you'd like to sell products like crazy from home using your PC
> -- without spending your life's savings -- this email may be the single most
> 
> 
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