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This may help contribute to any discussions. I have a
publically accessible web server that has an e-mail address for me
listed on it that isn't listed anywhere other than that server. On
top of that there is exactly one link from any other web site that I
know about to mine and it isn't on any search engines.
I received a SPAM message this month to that e-mail address
which I have NEVER used to send a single e-mail to anyone!!
SPAM is a fact of life and all that we can do is filter it
out and go on. Nothing that we can do will keep us from getting it
unfortunately.
>Hi all... Darryl, in the role of list "mom" here.
>
>I got a report of someone receiving spam at an address that he says
>was *only* used to subscribe to WinMac.
>
>I know that *I* haven't sold the list, nor is it available for
>download from the list server.
>
>However, since the archives of the list are available on a
>publicly-accessible website (http://www.darryl.com/winmac/), it's
>certainly possible that addresses of posters have been "harvested" from
>there.
>
>Personally, I get plenty of spam from all kinds of sources. I
>don't have time to worry about where it's from - I just use
>SpamBouncer (http://www.spambouncer.org/) to filter it out,
>and then I trash it.
>
>If people think it's necessary, before archiving posts, I could
>munge the addresses so that every @ symbol is replaced with (at).
>That might keep the clueless harvesters away for a short time (until
>they figure out to simply replace (at) with @).
>
>But what do y'all think?
>
>--
>Darryl Lee <lee@darryl.com> | Bore yourself silly: <http://www.darryl.com>
>
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