entomo-l & spam (Re: NIE remarks by Anne Kilmer)

[Doug Yanega]

Ernst Neering asked:

>Today, October 16, 1997 10:23:00 am DST, Anne Kilmer wrote
>
>>anyone know what's up with entomo-l? been off line forever, seems to me.

It's back.

>On the page, under Usenet and discussiongroups >> Biology&Biotechnologie >>
>Usenet, I found Sci.Bio.Entomology.Homoptera, Sci.Bio.Entomology.Misc and
>Sci.Bio.Entomology.Lepidoptera.
>
>Are the contributions in 'Misc' the same as in entomo-l?

No, they are not. There is no usenet "gate" of entomo-l postings.

>to my surprise I found contributions to LEPS-L in
>Sci.Bio.Entomology.Lepidoptera.
>Isn't this a way to supply addresses to SPAM mailers?

Yes it is, as Usenet is the place e-mail addresses are harvested by
spammers'  "extractor" software.

>LEPS-listers, your contributions to this list seem to be accessible to
>everybody, not only subscribers! Till now, I was not aware of that, were you?

I guess it's not like the listowner makes regular announcements, so I can
see how folks might not know this. At the very least, I'll mention that I'm
now in a position to help control spam on sci.bio.entomology.lepidoptera
directly, but there's nothing to be done about spam to leps-l.

Peace,

Doug Yanega    Depto. de Biologia Geral, Instituto de Ciencias Biologicas,
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