At 01:53 PM 2/21/97 -0600, you wrote:
>I saw a couple of bounced messages from a [log in to unmask] where the
>sender is asking for a bunch of informational items about dozens of
>listservs. He just hit my own listserver a few minutes ago. What can he
>hope to gain from gathering all that data? I presume something to do with
>spamming but can't quite work it out.
>
   Sounds like a good guess, but if so he's doing it the hard way.  There
are so many better ways to get info on lists that maybe he's clueless and
won't be able to figure it all out.  At least we can hope.  The easy way to
do is to buy one of the "instant spam" products for a few bucks, some of
which come with a list of a zillion lists, or "a million free internet
addresses included" for the 99 bucks or so.

cross your fingers.

dan


Dan Lester
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In the kingdom of the blind, the one eyed man is king.