17 Jun
2015
17 Jun
'15
10:12 a.m.
On Wed, Jun 17, 2015 at 01:30:24AM -0700, Graham Freeman wrote:
It's essentially guaranteed that at least one
member of any list has
(or used to have) a compromised computer and/or email account. It
only takes one to harvest the addresses from list traffic.
Or someone forwarded an email to someone with a compromised computer.
Once you start actively using an email address - whether it is tagged or
not - it is "out there" and you have no control over what happens to it.
And if you send it to a large number of people - via a mailing list like
this - you don't even be able to tell who leaked it, either deliberately
or accidentally.
Martijn.