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the emerald@earthstar spam
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Simon Karpen)
Tue Nov 26 11:59:35 1996
Date: Tue, 26 Nov 1996 11:38:40 -0500 (EST)
From: Simon Karpen <slk@karpes.stu.rpi.edu>
To: redhat-list@redhat.com
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actually, earthstar is well known for harvesting e-mail addresses off the
world wide web as well as newsgroups and such. their web-crawling bots
also ignore robots.txt, which is a very bad practice. I've seen numerous
attempts for their trawler to get into one (password protected) site that
I run.
Simon Karpen
karpes@rpi.edu, slk@acm.rpi.edu, slk@karpes.stu.rpi.edu
"I'm not paranoid, it's just that everybody's out to get me."
--Linus Torvalds
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