[Mailman-Developers] spammers harvesting email ids

[Julian Mehnle]

स्वक्ष wrote:

> I've checked out spammers who mass subscribe to the lists at Debian,
> Ubuntu, Fedora and RH, to access the email id's of all the subscribers
> (if this is set as available only to the list members).

This is pointless, as you can harvest contributors' email addresses from 
web-based archives for most of these lists even without being a 
subscriber:

  http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2010/06/msg00000.html

-Julian
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