<nassarsa at redconcepts.net> writes: > The spammers would have a field day with email harvesting from a forum. > > Screw that. I created a test for that a few years ago; http://www.dd-b.net/stpit/ is the top of it. All email sent to the addresses on exhibit there goes into a special folder (and is reported to spamtraps.taint.org). I believe I created it in October of 1999 (that's the earliest file date I can find in the directory). The first spam arrived in August of 2000. The most *recent* spam arrived in it December of 2001. Only 111 pieces of spam have *ever* arrived in it, including at least 6 test message I sent myself. My conclusion, so far, is that spammers do harvest the web for addresses, but only very rarely, and they don't seem to pass the addresses so harvested around. -- David Dyer-Bennet, dd-b at dd-b.net / New TMDA anti-spam in test John Dyer-Bennet 1915-2002 Memorial Site http://john.dyer-bennet.net Book log: http://www.dd-b.net/dd-b/Ouroboros/booknotes/ New Dragaera mailing list, see http://dragaera.info