Posted by tleemay on May 15, 2001 at 17:30:25:
In Reply to: Why did this happen? posted by Greg on May 15, 2001 at 17:10:04:
Someone's harvester gleened the e-mail addresses
off this BBS in the past 12 hrs or so judging by
the way the e-mails were listed. They came right
of the top of the extended header info. Anyone could
have collected them.
Believe me when I say the email addresses were not
sold by the BBS's main Admins. This is obvious
in that even the bogus sockpuppet addresses were
included too. If the list was sold to a company
for spamming targets, the seller would have had
to ensure to some reasonable degree that all the
addresses sold were valid... there are many that
showed up on this list that are not.
My NNTP server is down (has been for almost 3 days
now), so it's tough for me to track her at my office.
It is in the BB's Admins best interest to trace where
the cross posts to alt.sex.facial were threaded
from (easy to do) and report the obvious krass
action to the fwding user's ISP and access
provider.