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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!news From: Ken Bigelow <kbigelow@www.play-hookey.com> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: for sale: *YOUR* email address. Date: Wed, 20 Nov 1996 07:32:44 +0000 Organization: Erol's Internet Services Lines: 21 Message-ID: <3292B41C.449E@www.play-hookey.com> References: <3291CC65.6638@dont.spam.me> <56uf5h$lh3@onyx.dirnet.com> Reply-To: kbigelow@www.play-hookey.com NNTP-Posting-Host: kenjb05.play-hookey.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0 (Win16; U) Martin Spott wrote: > > Andrew Atrens (please@dont.spam.me) wrote: > : > : Somehow, somewhere, someone has gotten hold of email > : address and is providing it, or selling it to > : various spamming entities. [...] > > I'm recognizing increasing amounts of unwanted junk mail in the past two > weeks. In one the sender mentioned the words "your newsposting", so I > believe they're just scanning newsgroups to get email adresses. > That certainly fits what I've been getting in recent weeks. I certainly *hope* it's not something automated from any NG's home server! -- Ken Are you interested in | byte-sized education | http://www.play-hookey.com over the Internet? |