[Gllug] Spam

[Bruce Richardson]

On Thu, Oct 13, 2005 at 11:58:15PM +0100, Robert wrote:
> 
> hmmm...where did "it" get my (and your) email address?  The only "public" 
> places of this email has been is a couple of mailing lists and this is the 
> only one that has had a positive response (from other readers) - though 
> both(?) [the other one definitely] lists have been the targets of spam.  I 
> only got this email address in July.
> 
> Is there a "leak" on this list?

You were using an e-mail address on a public mailing address and
expected it to remain pristine?  Even if none of your messages ever end
up being quoted without obfustication (which is bound to happen
eventually), given that a lot of spam is now generated by "zombie"
hosts, your address could be harvested from the hard disk of one of the
list subscribers.

Not that the e-mail obfustication on the list archives is very hard to
mine.

-- 
Bruce

I unfortunately do not know how to turn cheese into gold.
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