Address harvesting of EDUCAUSE?

[Alan Amesbury <amesbury () OITSEC UMN EDU>]

Is it common for vendors to harvest e-mail addresses from the EDUCAUSE 
mailing lists? I ask because I've now received a couple e-mails (which 
were identical except for the first paragraph) like the one below, 
although I'm absolutely certain I didn't contact the company that 
purportedly sent them. Besides, the message below clearly implies 
EDUCAUSE was where the sender obtained my e-mail address.

My tendency is to shy away from products that are sold via unsolicited 
commercial e-mail ("spam" in my book), since I think buying such 
products would only encourage more spam. I think the vendor can't be 
*too* "heavily engaged with the research community" as most researchers 
I know tend to despise spam (but I could be wrong).

Anyway, I was just curious if this was a common occurence or not, at 
least as it relates to EDUCAUSE, and whether EDUCAUSE policy encouraged 
this sort of thing.


--
Alan Amesbury
University of Minnesota



-------- Original Message --------
Subject:        Network Security and Monitoring
Date:   Tue, 15 Feb 2005 12:37:37 +1300
From:   Aaron Finlayson <aaron.finlayson () endace com>
Reply-To:       aaron.finlayson () endace com
Organization:   Endace
To:     amesbury () OITSEC UMN EDU



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