From kde-core-devel  Thu Jan 22 10:57:17 2009
From: Oswald Buddenhagen <ossi () kde ! org>
Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2009 10:57:17 +0000
To: kde-core-devel
Subject: Re: update the feature plan!
Message-Id: <20090122105717.GA31746 () troll08 ! nokia ! trolltech ! de>
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On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 08:31:48AM +0100, Josef Spillner wrote:
> Am Donnerstag, 22. Januar 2009 01:01:02 schrieb Oswald Buddenhagen:
> > of course. do you think that address harvesting bots subscribe to lists
> > and wait for addresses to trickle in when they can get so many
> > addresses by simply recursing over a few web pages within seconds? to me
> > this seems a bit uneconomical.
> 
> I have the suspicion (although no proof) that some of today's bots do 
> subscribe to mailing lists. There were some spam mails sent to moderated lists 
> including freedesktop.org with subscription just minutes before. It would be 
> rather uneconomical to do this by hand instead of just www-mechanising (Perl 
> slang) something within two hours. My fears that this phenomenon would become 
> more widespread have so far been unfounded, though.
> 
that's a different scenario. you are talking about subscribing for the
actual spamming, i'm talking about subscribing for collecting addresses
(which is the relevant thing in relation to protecting private mail
addresses).