FV> On (15 Jul 02) Malcolm Miles wrote to Frank Vest...

 FV> Hello Malcolm,

FV>> "spam bots" could be made to "harvest" Node
addresses for spam
FV>> purposes. In reality, harvesting would not be needed. Just grab a
FV>> copy of the Nodelist, add yourself into it and spam away. :(
 MM>> It is happening already. I throw away hundreds of Fidonet-
 MM>> addressed spam daily at my Internet gateway.

 FV> True, but those originate from the Internet. As I described,
 FV> the spam would originate from a Fidonet Node in the Fidonet
 FV> Nodelist operating Fidonet mailer and no way to stop them
 FV> since they added their own Nodes listing to the Fidonet
 FV> Nodelist. Yes, the *C could remove the listing, but the Node
 FV> just adds it back in.... and the battle rages.

there would be a lock mechanism... has to be... and the "controlling
commitee" (if you will) would have that capability...

)\/(ark