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[Nexus]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Dave Bird" <dave@xemu.demon.co.uk>
To: <ukcrypto@chiark.greenend.org.uk>
Sent: Thursday, October 10, 2002 1:08 AM
Subject: Re: Spam
[snip]

> So, how hard is it to read without subscribing, or even ask for
> a contributors' list?

It's not even as hard as trivial ;-)
Taking advantage of the archive structure format
http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/pipermail/ukcrypto/[Year]-[Month].txt

c:\CLI Tools>wget
http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/pipermail/ukcrypto/2002-April.txt
[blah download stuff]

c:\CLI Tools>cat 2002-April.txt | grep From: | head
From: Axel H Horns horns@ipjur.com
From: Peter Tomlinson pwt@iosis.co.uk
From: "Axel H Horns" <horns@ipjur.com>
From: Peter Fairbrother peter.fairbrother@ntlworld.com
From: Donald ramsbottom donald@ramsbottom.co.uk
From: Roland Perry roland@linx.net
From: Arturo Quirantes aquiran@ugr.es
From: Arturo Quirantes aquiran@ugr.es
From: Peter Fairbrother peter.fairbrother@ntlworld.com
From: Adam Atkinson Adam.Atkinson@damovo.com

About a dozen lines of perl and you have every address that ever posted...
*shrug*
Though I have to say that the March 2036 archive might slip past :P

Cheers,
            JJ