RE: Stopping spam

[Mike Griffiths <mike@xxxxxxx>]

Thanks Stuart 
But I was referring to the fact that Yahoo subscribe you to mailing lists
I had turned this off but I think now they have reset it
Its quite well hidden but there was a thread here on where to find it 
For the life of me I can find neither
Mike

-----Original Message-----
From: Stuart Grimshaw [mailto:stuart@xxxxxxx] 
Sent: 15 June 2002 10:53
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [ukha_d] Stopping spam

On Friday 14 June 2002 11:55 pm, Mike Griffiths wrote:
> Can anyone remember how to see if Yahoo are adding your Email address
to
> advertisers

Well, all a spammer has to do is subscribe to a mailing list, then they can
see a list of subscribers. What I do (apart from the ukha list) is append a
little suffix to my email addres,

stuart.ms@xxxxxxx
stuart.pgsql@ etc

This way I can see which mailing lists (or newsgroups usually) are being
trolled for addresses to spam.

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Stuart Grimshaw <stuart@xxxxxxx>
Chief Operations Officer - Football Networks LTD

http://www.footballnet.com/

t:07976 625221




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