At 19:37 24/11/97 , Mary Schweitzer wrote:

We also have evidence that our lists were mined by Amway groups and these
were passed on to others to build up a friendship before conning them into
Multi Level Marketing. Most of our subscribers are Filipinos and many are
on income levels below those in the west.

Like Mary I suffer with CFS and get quite upset when I (or in this case) my
lists are advantaged.

I have review= by owner
I have the .hh on and off settings in the header so only the list names
appear in Catalist, I run 10 lists. In fact my level of security now has
almost reached a level of paranoia to be sure no one else mines my lists.

Perhaps 'closing' the door on the lists should take a high priority so
there is no chance that miners get in.

Wayne



>I can give you three examples of addresses being "mined" from archived
>lists, stemming from my experience on a USENET-gated support list for
>persons who have a debilitating, myserious disease for which there is no
>known cure -- which leaves us rather vulnerable.

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