spammers harvesting emaill address from this list

Eric Crist mnslinky at gmail.com
Thu Aug 23 13:42:33 PDT 2007


On Aug 23, 2007, at 3:20 PMAug 23, 2007, Rob wrote:

> Paul Schmehl wrote:
>> This is the internet.  Spam is endemic.  Short of encasing your  
>> computer in concrete, there's no way to avoid getting spam **even  
>> if you never post to a mailing list**.  Either learn to deal with  
>> it or stop
>
> Bullshit.  I've kept addresses spam-free for years.  I usually use  
> "disposable" ones for online purchasing, mailing lists, etc.  What  
> really SUCKS is the time I had to pretty much abandon a "good"  
> address because I hit "sent" too !@#$#% soon sending something here  
> -- the ONLY publicly archived list I'm on that DOESN'T obfuscate  
> the sender's address AND allows anyone out there to post!
>

You could choose to troll the list and not participate.  The list has  
been set up this way for quite a long while, and I doubt there is  
going to be any changes made any time soon.

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Eric F Crist
Secure Computing Networks




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