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> John Hughes:
> > Since they're spamming my inbox as well, I'd be happy to.
> >
> > Please forward instructions!
>
> AFAIK, my addy hasn't been "mined" by these people -- not that I'm
> not getting spam, mind you, it just doesn't look like the shame
> wasters.
>
> What you need to do is scrutinise the full headers to see if the
> email really is from "awesome.com", etc (normally this is unlikely
> in yer average piece of spam, but yahoogroups is supposed to do
> up-front filtering of obvious fake addys, isn't it?)
>
>
> I'd personally say that moderated sign-up is the only real "fix" to
> this; we seem to have a spammer willing to go to the effort of
> signing up to the list (repeatedly), simply to send one piece of
> spam.
Well, previously it was "anyone can post" - including non-members.
No longer.