Andrew Sullivan wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 17, 2006 at 06:20:26PM +0200, Andreas Kostyrka wrote:
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>> in less than one hour? Either someone is collecting addresses from the
>> archives or by receiving emails from the list?
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> My guess is the second thing.  Some of the worms that attack Windows
> machines, for instance, monitor inbound mail and then send a packet
> out with the newly-harvested address in.  This is why email is
> decreasingly useful.
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The other week, I noticed when I sent a note to the list that I received
a spam message (which quoted the title) before I received a copy of my
message from the mailing list.  Clearly, someone's got a remarkably
efficient "spambot" out there.  It doesn't always happen, but I have
seen spam of the form mentioned a few times.