Re: Spamming of NANOG list members

[William Herrin <bill () herrin us>]

On Fri, May 24, 2019 at 8:08 AM Anne P. Mitchell, Esq. <amitchell () isipp com>
wrote:

> Question:  Is the member list with email addresses public??  Otherwise,
> one has to wonder how they got these addresses?

Everyone who posts does so with an email address that becomes known to
everyone who subscribes and published everywhere someone publicly archives
the messages. It's common practice by spammers to harvest addresses by
subscribing to mailing lists.

Regards,
Bill Herrin

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