Thanks, Ben. I was afraid of this: here I've been with that damn barn door open for ten years . . . I get so much spam that of course I'd never notice an increase (thank God for spamassassin), but I expect subscribers get more than they would otherwise. -- Russ On 13 Jan 2005 at 8:13, Ben Parker wrote: > On Thu, 13 Jan 2005 09:38:01 -0400, Russ Hunt <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > > >We're running 1.8e. It looks to me as though anybody going to > > > >http://listserv.unb.ca/archives/stlhe-l.html > > > >could just harvest the email addresses. > > Yes they could with 1.8e and previous versions. > > > What's 14.3? > > The newest, recent release version of LISTSERV. It was announced on LSTSRV-L > > <http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/scripts/wa.exe?A2=ind0412&L=lstsrv-l&T=0&F=&S=&P=891> > > and on L-Soft's Website: http://www.lsoft.com/products/listserv_143.asp > > >If my email address were harvested from a > >list archive, how would I know that > > You would receive more new and interesting spam at that email address. Of > course if you have always had the same address for a long time, then you may > not notice this increase among all the spam you already get. But it does > happen. > > >and why would the list be affected? > > The list itself probably would not. But the email addresses of many list > members harvested would also receive more new and interesting spam. St. Thomas University http://www.StThomasU.ca/~hunt/