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Re: Address harvesting of EDUCAUSE?
From: Stephen Bernard <sbernard () GMU EDU>
Date: Sat, 26 Feb 2005 14:28:10 -0500
Matthew Dalton wrote:
I would be curious to know if anyone that has not posted to the list before has received spam. Through a very simple script in UNIX, I was able to get 84 addresses from the mailing list archive. It seems that the spammer wouldn't necessarily need to be a member of the list. They only need a web browser. By the way, I ran the script from my home machine, just to be sure that it was accessible from outside of .edu sites. Perhaps at the least these archives should be restricted to only members. lynx -dump 'http://listserv.educause.edu/cgi-bin/wa.exe?A1=ind0502&L=security' | grep 'From:' | awk '{print $NF}' | sort -u -- ************************************************************************** |Matthew Dalton |Phone: (585)273-1721 | |ITS Security Group |Email: Matthew.Dalton () rochester edu | |University of Rochester | | |Rochester, NY 14620 | | **************************************************************************
Good example. Email address harvesting from public listservs, forums, and websites has been going on for a long time. It seems that this list hasn't been targeted before. At least not noticeably. It's a good way to find live email addresses for directed marketing and other less honorable purposes. Given the audience I'm a bit surprised that so many seem to be experiencing this phenomena for the first time. Steve Bernard George Mason University Fairfax, Virginia ********** Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE Discussion Group discussion list can be found at http://www.educause.edu/groups/.
Current thread:
- Re: Address harvesting of EDUCAUSE?, (continued)
- Re: Address harvesting of EDUCAUSE? Bill Kyle (Feb 25)
- Re: Address harvesting of EDUCAUSE? Theresa Semmens (Feb 25)
- Re: Address harvesting of EDUCAUSE? Joan Couse (Feb 25)
- Re: Address harvesting of EDUCAUSE? Dewitt Latimer (Feb 25)
- Re: Address harvesting of EDUCAUSE? Matthew Dalton (Feb 25)
- Re: Address harvesting of EDUCAUSE? Eric Pancer (Feb 25)
- Re: Address harvesting of EDUCAUSE? James Riden (Feb 25)
- Re: Address harvesting of EDUCAUSE? Peter Moody (Feb 25)
- Re: Address harvesting of EDUCAUSE? Mark Poepping (Feb 25)
- Re: Address harvesting of EDUCAUSE? Kay Sommers (Feb 25)
- Re: Address harvesting of EDUCAUSE? Stephen Bernard (Feb 26)
- Re: Address harvesting of EDUCAUSE? Kevin Shalla (Feb 28)
- Re: Address harvesting of EDUCAUSE? John Kristoff (Feb 28)
- Re: Address harvesting of EDUCAUSE? Scott Fendley (Feb 28)
- Re: Address harvesting of EDUCAUSE? Jeni Li (Feb 28)