! why?
Chuck McManis
cmcmanis at mcmanis.com
Wed Mar 24 20:42:28 PST 2004
At 12:50 PM 3/24/2004, you wrote:
>Why have you sold my email address to spammers?
>
>The "clint+freebsddotorg at acm.vt.edu" email was a one-time disposable email
>address that I only ever gave to FreeBSD.org.
>
>Now I am receiving spam email targeted at that address.
>An address I only gave YOU.
>
>Any suggestions or response?
>
>-Clint Lipinski
I doubt anyone sold it, it appeared unprotected in the following page
(accessible by google)
<http://groups.google.com/groups?q=freebsddotorg&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&safe=off&selm=200202242210.g1OMA3E20686_freefall.freebsd.org%40ns.sol.net&rnum=2>
Which is a response to a PR you filed. Before you accuse someone of selling
your email address try googling for it, then try googling on netnews for
it. You'd be surprised.
--Chuck
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