Re: Address harvesting of EDUCAUSE?

[Dewitt Latimer <dewitt () ND EDU>]

We see this behavior on a number of the more technical lists (wireless-lan,
etc).

All EDUCAUSE constituent lists are open and searchable.  Moreover, there are
no policies that keep vendors from joining the lists..they just can't push
their services directly on the list.

So yes, you can rest assured that contact information is being harvested.

-d

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Dewitt Latimer, Ph.D.
Deputy CIO and Chief Technology Officer
The University of Notre Dame
dewitt () nd edu


-----Original Message-----
From: The EDUCAUSE Security Discussion Group Listserv
[mailto:SECURITY () LISTSERV EDUCAUSE EDU] On Behalf Of Alan Amesbury
Sent: Friday, February 25, 2005 12:06 PM
To: SECURITY () LISTSERV EDUCAUSE EDU
Subject: [SECURITY] Address harvesting of EDUCAUSE?

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



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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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