The list archives are password protected for mailop and only available for 
members. So nobody can publicitly scrape them unless they are member of the 
list.

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Från: Alessandro Vesely via mailop <[email protected]> 
Skickat: den 16 mars 2026 11:10
Till: [email protected]
Ämne: Re: [mailop] Direct robot response from MessageGears?

On Sun 15/Mar/2026 18:17:32 +0100 Bill Cole via mailop wrote:
> On 2026-03-15 at 09:53:39 UTC-0400 (Sun, 15 Mar 2026 14:53:39 +0100)
> Carsten Schiefner via mailop <[email protected]>
> is rumored to have said:
>
>> but I have felt so far that this is not yet necessary for lists, too, as 
>> they 
>> have good gatekeepers who are keeping the annoyances out.
>
> It doesn't matter who runs a list or how. Nothing stops random idiot spammers 
> from accessing public list archives to scrape addresses.


It looks to me like they're targeting the scraped addresses directly, rather 
than using them as senders to spam the list.  Is that true?


Best
Ale
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