full-disclosure - lots and lots and lots of swen?

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From: vdongen at hetisw.nl (I.R.van Dongen)
Subject: lots and lots and lots of swen?

On Sun, 23 Nov 2003 16:34:09 -0800
Corey Hickey <bugfood-ml@...ooh.org> wrote:

> I'm just curious, has anybody else noticed a marked increase in the
> amount of swen mailings received? When swen first appeared, I got
> about 4 or 5 of them each day for about a week, then they tapered off
> to about once a week. ...until the last 60 hours, during which time I
> have receieved no less than 94 mails.

Not really, they keep going on and on and on ...
> 
> The only slightly-irregular thing I'd done with this address before
> the swen flooding was a post to the debian-user mailing list (about 3
> hours before the deluge), but I don't really know if that relates
> because I've posted on debian-user several times over the past couple
> months without this happening.

The debian mailinglists get posted to usenet, swen harvests mostly from
usenet, so if you post to the mailinglist you get found by Swen. 

The Swen I get is send to this address and my special usenet-address
mostly (99%)

Greetings,

Ivo van Dongen