Someone has harvested my address

Bill Royds apple at royds.net
Sun Sep 7 15:38:53 CEST 2008


On 7-Sep-08, at 05:50 , Phil Reynolds wrote:

> It seems that somebody has harvested this address, as I received an
> off-list spam to it.


If you have added that address to a public PGP key server, that will  
be the reason. spammers have been harvesting key servers within the  
pgp.net domain for several years.

As well, anything sent to a public list like this may be archived on  
web pages, inviting harvest for spam.



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