Getting a lot of SPAM from this list

John Bokma john at castleamber.com
Mon Oct 23 16:02:44 EDT 2006


Ed Leafe <ed at leafe.com> wrote:

>      Spammers don't scan lists as much anymore;

There is still a lot of harvesting from websites going on as far as I can 
tell. And Usenet, since "this list", or at least your post, also pops up 
on Usenet.

>      machines  
> infected with malware to extract addresses out of email programs. I  
> know this doesn't help you, but it is good to recognize that it isn't 
> always the fault of the list admins.

It *never* is, since the problem is the spammer. They have no right to 
abuse your email address.

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