[Gloucs] Spam to unique email address

[Nick]

Quoth the Paul Broadhead:
> Very
> occasionally, I do get spam sent to such email addresses.  One such
> case happened last week so I contacted the service support and asked if
> they could explain.  I have had a very reasonable exchange with the
> these support folks who appear to be taking the situation very
> seriously.  They assure me they have not lost or given my address to
> anyone else and that their servers are not compromised. Assuming
> things are OK my end too, the question is.  How can this be explained?

The address I was using on a freecycle list got added to certain 
spammers lists a while ago. The admins there (who aren't necessarily 
very technical - they just administer yahoo groups lists) thought 
that someone subscribed to the list just gave all of the email 
addresses which passed through them on to spammers. Nice thing about 
such a <name of service>@domain system though is the redundancy - I 
just drop any email to that address now, and thus receive no spam 
again.

Nick

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