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<div>I’m just curious why you would expect Outages — or <i>any</i> publicly accessible mailing list — would
<i>not</i> be scraped? Mailing lists seem such obvious low-hanging fruit for spammers. </div>
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<div>I do like your idea of a separate email address for every list, which I surmise can easily be done with aliases and some simple record keeping. A quick goog found this discussion of the idea on StackExchange:</div>
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<blockquote type="cite">On Nov 14, 2024, at 11:53 AM, jrk1231-outml--- via Outages-discussion <outages-discussion@outages.org> wrote:<br>
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<div>I have separate email addresses for every company, app, mailing list, etc. which I send email to or receive email from. In the past three days, I have been receiving AmEx phishing emails targeted to my outages mailing list email address. I was curious
wheither I was an isolated target, or whether a lot of outages subscribers have been getting similar emails—which could indicate outages itself had been scraped, vs. my address harvested from some individual's hacked email account.</div>
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<div>Just curious. Requesting positive responses, and "not me"s.</div>
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<div>Thanks!</div>
<div>Jon K</div>
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