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[Fwd: TC Member list & "Wrong Hands"]
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From: John MacDonald [SMTP:jmac-at-silverlink-dot-net]
Sent: Tuesday, March 17, 1998 3:15 AM
To: tesla-at-pupman-dot-com
Subject: [Fwd: TC Member list & "Wrong Hands"]
> Chip
> Tesla List wrote:
> >
> > ----------
> > From: Gary Lau 15-Mar-1998 1953 [SMTP:lau-at-hdecad.ENET.dec-dot-com]
> > Sent: Sunday, March 15, 1998 7:14 PM
> > To: tesla-at-pupman-dot-com
> > Subject: TC Member list & "Wrong Hands"
> >
> > >> One person was worried this information would fall into the wrong hands.
> > >>
> > >What are the wrong hands?????????????????? If the FBI sees you are making
> > >Tesla coils they will know you are just nuts and not a terrorist or other
> > >serious threat to humanity.
> > >
> > >jim heagy
> > >
> >
> > That may have been me.
> >
> > I've heard that there are search engines that crawl the web, searching for
> > EMAIL addresses, lists of which are sold to businesses to direct their
> > SPAM junk mail. I get several per week, I'm suspecting from my address
> > appearing in TESLA list posts archived on the web. Obviously, in my
> > case, the "damage" is done, but further spammings could be prevented by
> > disguising email addresses appearing in such a list of coilers, by
> > replacing "-at-" and "." characters with "_at_" and "_dot" - human but not
> > machine understandable.
> >
> > I don't think I'm paranoid, am I?
>
> Paranoid? IMHO, yes.
>
> pupman-dot-com isn't up long enough for anyone to even get it :)
>
> Most of the engines (all?) scan newsgroups for postings, this mailing
> list isn't a newsgroup, it is not all collected on a central server.
> Therefore if a person wanted to scan it, they would have to subscribe
> and get all the mail. Also, to scan the archives would require
> downloading all of them as well. The reason newsgroups are used, is that
> the NNTP protocol allows for a person/program to `head' the article,
> basically grab the headers. SMTP doesn't allow this, and archiving in
> HTTP/FTP doesn't either, unless the e-mail address is in the header,
> which it is not.
>
> Finally, an area that I am qualified to answer questions in!
>
> --
> JMac
> Perl CGI! :) I could write programs to do anything that I said isn't
> done, but you would need a LOT of memory, a BIG harddrive, and a FAST
> connection (t-3 or better)