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Ted Roche tedroche at tedroche.com
Tue Nov 29 08:37:00 EST 2005


> -- Ben "Is it still paranoia if they really are out to get you?" Scott

No, it's healthy skepticism.

On Nov 28, 2005, at 10:27 PM, Ben Scott wrote:

>   Are we finally starting to see spammers subscribing their harvesters
> to mailing lists?  Or is this benign?  Anyone know more about
> "bloglines.com"?  (They have a website but I'm too busy to research it
> extensively right now.)

Bloglines is a legitimate business, offering online RSS news  
aggregation. I know a number of subscribers to my blog read it via  
bloglines.

I don't know of a mail harvesting scheme using bloglines, but "sign- 
ups are free" so it certainly could be subject to abuse and misuse.


Ted Roche
Ted Roche & Associates, LLC
http://www.tedroche.com




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