This hasn't happened to me....but it came through the Texas Archives list,
so thought I'd pass it along to all of you.
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Gene Philips wrote:
An email address harvesting robot is going through the archives taking
email adresses. It then sends you a message telling you that is happening
and all you have to do is click on a link and your name will be removed.
DO NOT CLICK ON THIS LINK.
All that accomplishes is letting the robot know that it has found a valid
email address. I have gotten 4 of these so far and I have got a message
from a contributor asking me to remove her email address from her
submission because when she clicks on the link, nothing happens.
Gene
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This guy makes it
sound like it's something new. I got one each for my genealogy site, and
one of the Archive counties - Austin, I think. I got two for my
genlists site, four different addresses. Someone posted a note to use @
for the @ sign in the addresses. I've been changing them on my
genlists site. I don't know if it works but the addresses that got spidered
were brazzil-admin@rootsweb and brazzil-l-request@rootsweb which
I didn't change. I didn't get one for dala@mindspring which I did change on
all my sites.
I just got two more - lol - two more "request" addresses for a mailing list.
Just a thought
Gina
Virginia Crilley