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spam to follow

Posted: Sat Oct 18, 2003 10:47 pm
by Kevin Mackie
I got this in my personal email today. I don't suspect I'm the only one.

How is it that someone can gain access to the member listing? Did someone go through the list manually by just starting at the beginning of the membership list? Or is there a possiblility that the membership list was sold?

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Not sure how they got the list

Posted: Sun Oct 19, 2003 12:07 am
by gmattson
But I can say that no one associated with this site released the list to anyone.

Posted: Sun Oct 19, 2003 12:25 am
by Stryke
there are programms that can harvest email adresses of the web , I`d suspect something like that , and technology great :roll: