I don't know. It would depend on whether somebody's built a web
spider that's able to traverse Yahoo groups and do this stuff
automatically. I suppose that doesn't strike me as being terribly
unlikely, and most of the addresses that the things tend to sign up as
seem to be fairly ridiculous. Almost all of them appear to be
gibberish *.info domains, although one or two of them seem to have a
blank web page attached to it. The spammer who's been plaguing this
list doesn't seem very inventive in his email addresses, which has
made it somewhat easier to slay the re-registerings on sight, although
occasionally there's a number salad address from a Yahoo-based domain
(usually some place offshore, but not always) that comes along that
makes me suspicious.

Side note: if you're new and this describes you, you might want to
send a non-spam reply to this some time soon to convince me that
you're a human if you want to stick around.... if you don't I might
decide you're a scout bot and kick you off. I'm pretty draconian in
my anti-spam views, and anybody who's been around a while can tell you
all about my old spam filters in the days when teleport.com gave me
pretty .procmail tools to play with.... ah, those were the days... ;)

EF

--- In robowar@yahoogroups.com, Camden <the1true2all@...> wrote:
>
> Yeah, what's the likelyhood that they are bots. Spam
> scares me, but not nearly as much as imagining people
> hunched over copy-pasting messages into email windows
> and clicking send over and over. Or are they highly
> selective in which audiences they choose. The word
> got around that I'm feeling insecure about my dick
> size. Maybe they invision themselves as providing a
> great resource to people otherwise left in the dark?
> Sounds like a great character for a novel. Do they
> dress up in super-hero outfits before sitting down at
> the computer?
>
> Camden