> 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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