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From: "Paul Hunt" <paul.hunt1@blueyonder.co.uk>
Date: Tue, 31 May 2011 10:16:19 +0100
Don't blame the list member.  It is probably not even his account that has 
been hacked, but somewhere else where his email appears.  There have been a 
spate of these purporting to be from Yahoo, Gmail, AOL and now MSN users and 
several times it has been stated that it is the servers of *these* 
organisations that are being hacked in order to obtain vast numbers of valid 
email addresses, rather than the few that would be obtained from hacking 
personal computers.  That being correct, one of the answers is not to use 
the mail providers server to send and receive mail using a browser but use a 
PC client, delete any server list of contacts, and more importantly to make 
sure the server isn't building a list of contacts automatically based on who 
you send mail to even when you *do* use a PC client.  AOL at least does this 
by default, you have to log in to the server, find the switch and turn it 
off.

----- Original Message ----- 
> Since access to this list is by subscription, it should be possible to ban 
> the "list member" who sent it. 
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