How does one /accidentally/ harvest email addresses and /accidentally/ add them to a Mailchimp list and /accidentally/ send emails with full header personalization?
All mass-mail systems I'm aware of offer to scrape your own contacts when you first sign up. Anyone who has ever started or replied to a Nanog thread is in everyone else's contact list, including the list address itself. I don't think the list was scraped, Ben's contacts were. One implies malice, the other, a lack of foresight. Ben is active enough here to know one would be crucified and/or humiliated for scraping the list, both were the case here. -Matt On Fri, Nov 20, 2020 at 5:44 PM Grant Taylor via NANOG <nanog@nanog.org> wrote:
On 11/20/20 4:41 PM, Matt Erculiani wrote:
Ben is fairly regular on this list and I can't imagine she did this on purpose.
How does one /accidentally/ harvest email addresses and /accidentally/ add them to a Mailchimp list and /accidentally/ send emails with full header personalization?
This *REALLY* seems like a blatant scrape of -- now I have a good idea -- the NANOG mailing list.
I for one have black listed 6x7 on all email servers that I have administrative control over.
I'm sure she'll see this thread and fix it. Relax...
I don't know. I think it was far more intentional than accidental.
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