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Re: [FreeDNS] Address harvesting
Colin Alston wrote:
For about the thousandth time now, my email address has been harvested
from the ZA NiC FreeDNS list.
I'd like to know how this is happening and if there would be any steps
done to prevent this happening in future, as this seems to be
happening far too often. I'm fine if people receive a mail as a result
of being subscribed to the list, but I'm worried its being archived
somewhere without masking the sender addresses.
Hello,
I also have high levels of concern about this subject. I actually wasn't
aware about it until now, thanks for bringing it to my attention, Colin!
Just as an exersize in what is possible, I managed to harvest 235
unique email addresses from the list by using only a browser and the
OpenOffice Calc spreadsheet. This took me about 15 minutes of fumbling,
an experienced office worker would more than likely do better. A
harvesting script will do so in seconds. :-)
Thanks Christiaan for fixing this!
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Regards,
Jan Henkins
Cell: +44-7726-403744
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