Re: Address harvesting of EDUCAUSE?

[Kevin Shalla <kshalla () UIC EDU>]

Would it be a good idea to require a login (and you're required to
subscribe to get a login) to search the archives?

At 01:28 PM 2/26/2005, Steve Bernard wrote:
> 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
>
> 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.

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