Re: A letter from the CEO

[Matt Erculiani <merculiani () gmail com>]

> 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.
>
>
>
> --
> Grant. . . .
> unix || die

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Matt Erculiani
ERCUL-ARIN