Someone has harvested my address

[Hardeep Singh]

http://blog.hardeep.name/computer/20080806/spam-gmail/

This is one way to avoid this. Have a "public" address and a private
address. Redirect email from the public address to the real (private)
one when the "from" field matches that of the lists you subscribe to.

On Sun, Sep 7, 2008 at 7:08 PM, Bill Royds <apple at royds.net> wrote:
>
> 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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Hardeep Singh
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