Date   : Tue, 10 May 2005 18:37:12 +0100
From   : Jon Ripley <jon@...>
Subject: Re: Beeb versus Master?

Mike Tomlinson wrote:
> Yes, I have.  I have been deleting it on sight, but when the next one
> comes through, will examine the headers.  I don't think it's coming via
> the mailing list, as my email client automatically sorts mail from the
> list into a pseudo-newsgroup, whereas the spam is ending up in my inbox.

I have not received a single spam from this group that I can remember. 
No...wait a sec, IIRC one may have slipped through the net in May last year.

> I suspect the spammers have harvested a list of email addresses from one
> of the list archives out on the web.

It would be *impossible* for any spammer however talented to harvest 
your email address, or the email address of any member, from the BBC 
Micro Mailing List Archive or its mirror.

For instance, your email address when published on the archive is listed 
  as mike@... and there is no way that your posting address could be 
determined from it.

Very few email addresses appear on the archive in plaintext, one is 
bmlarchive@... This address appears on every page 
and receives almost no spam.

Take a peek at the archive at http://nelsonit.net/~jon/BBCMicro/ and see 
for yourself.

Have fun,
Jon Ripley
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http://jonripley.com/