[Scspamcop] Re: Prepare for a new deluge

[Wazoo]

"Bar0" <nobody at spamcop.net> wrote in message 
news:g55hi3$h41$1 at news.spamcop.net...
> If you've been an SC poster using your email address, some "new" 
> pyramid/MLM scammer has harvested the pipermail archives, and will 
> tell you s/he loves YOUR! WebPages at
>
> http://news.spamcop.net/pipermail/spamcop-help/YYYY-MMMMM...
>
> hmmm, not your webpage?
>
> and invite you to add their links to YOUR webpage for money, and 
> offer links to sites for real good "downlines" in their "program".
>
> In my case they found one of my addies from the days before I 
> routinely used the "nobody" at SC mail "account"

Somewhat interesting actually.  First of all, much difference 
between the MailMan app used on the news server and the current 
version running on a different server.  Most "in-the-clear" 
addresses seem to be a result of being quoted, so yes, there are a 
quite a few email addresses 'available' for scraping.

Historical ... the archiving on the news server died back in June of 
2006, basically a disc-full issue.  I finally decided to install the 
software on another server so as to re-start the archiving, 
somewhere around November/December 2006.  One of the issues still 
not resolved is that the Official Help pages still point to the 
"news" server for the Archives.  I don't want to remove that data 
from that server as that would cause too many 404 errors, yet I've 
not been able to convince anyone with access to those Official Help 
pages to update them so those links point to the current archives. 
What files that remained on the news server have been copied over to 
the current Archiving system, but technically a whole lot of (old 
Archive) HTML still needs to be updated to resolve the broken links 
(still pointing to files that were deleted to free up some space, 
before I was granted access to that server so as to copy off the 
existing files) and of course all the 'internal' redirect links that 
also still point back to the 'news' server.

One would think that if this spammer was actually awake at the 
wheel, I'd be the one receiving this spam offer.  Strangely enough, 
I haven't received a single one of these.  Wondering if I could be 
bought for that "up to $4,800 a month" offer or not <g>