Anyone else get spammed from this list?
David.Anthony
David.Anthony at comcare.gov.au
Fri Oct 30 11:30:50 CET 1998
Caskey
This is the only list I am subscribed to (you think I use this mailer by
choice:-) for this address.
I have never XX received SPAM on this address.
Regards
Anthony David
ISG, Host Systems Adminstrator
"You can't compare Rimmer to a book. A book has a spine" RD VII
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Caskey L. Dickson [SMTP:caskey at technocage.com]
> Sent: Friday, October 30, 1998 11:05 AM
> To: g10 at net.lut.ac.uk
> Subject: Anyone else get spammed from this list?
>
>
> Sorry folks, but I have to know...
>
> I'm a very protective person when it comes to my direct email address.
>
> Due to my job I must necessarily give out email addresses quite a bit,
> however I'm careful to always use an alias of some sort. Through the
> magic of qmail I am able to create ad-hoc aliases based upon my
> primary
> address. For example, I receive this list through caskey-lists-gpg at .
> Mind you, I don't believe the operators of this list have been
> complicit
> in any way.
>
> After a year and a half of careful protection of my primary mail
> address,
> the one that I always read every message for carefully, I have
> received my
> first spam. I regularly am spammed through my other email addresses,
> however I am able to filter those out. Also, if I find that a
> particular
> vendor has sold my email address, I can simply disable that alias.
>
> I know you're all wondering why the hell I'm telling you all this,
> well,
> it's because this is the only list that I post to. All of my other
> mail
> goes to friends & family. That means that assuming my friends didn't
> sell
> me out, someone is lurking on this list and sucking email addresses.
> Either that, or the archives were recently walked and vacuumed for
> mail
> addresses. Either way, I'm curious as to whether or not anyone has
> received a spam with a forged return address at 'eanet.de'.
>
> I'm sure everyone on the list would prefer a private reply.
>
> C=)
>
> P.S. To the archive maintainers: would it be possible to remove the @
> signs from the email addresses in the message archive? That would at
> least hamper web mining for addresses.
>
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