Re: curious spam...

2020-09-15 Thread Thomas Scott
> > I treat it as a back-end mailbox for my own smtp server. 100% of email > that reaches my gmail box without going to another address at my mail server first is spam. I used a similar flow a few years ago that worked until I made the mistake of signing into some service using "Sign in with

Re: curious spam...

2020-09-15 Thread J. Hellenthal via NANOG
Hey google, siri, or Alexa phoning home and your information put into a local database as a new person in the area for which they have bought your address I could believe that. -- J. Hellenthal The fact that there's a highway to Hell but only a stairway to Heaven says a lot about

Re: curious spam...

2020-09-15 Thread William Herrin
On Tue, Sep 15, 2020 at 12:39 AM David Hubbard wrote: > Here in Florida the self-preservation interests of the two party system have > resulted in all voter registrations being made public, including email, > d/o/b, phone, home address (since you can't legally register any other), > party

Re: curious spam...

2020-09-14 Thread Mark Seiden
> On Sep 14, 2020, at 5:04 PM, John Levine wrote: > > In article > you > write: >> I moved to Seattle. Today I found my grmail box subscribed to a >> congressman's list from a nearby Washington jurisdiction. Not some >> random congressman. And not any of the addresses I give out; my gmail

Re: curious spam...

2020-09-14 Thread John Levine
In article you write: >I moved to Seattle. Today I found my grmail box subscribed to a >congressman's list from a nearby Washington jurisdiction. Not some >random congressman. And not any of the addresses I give out; my gmail >box's address which I don't. ... It's strange but I think it's not

Re: curious spam...

2020-09-14 Thread David Hubbard
Here in Florida the self-preservation interests of the two party system have resulted in all voter registrations being made public, including email, d/o/b, phone, home address (since you can't legally register any other), party affiliation. If you used your private email for any state

Re: curious spam...

2020-09-14 Thread Aaron C. de Bruyn via NANOG
Yes. I get spammed about once a week from Jaime Herrera Beutler. Never looked at the headers though. It's entirely possible someone is either pranking me by signing me up to political lists or they harvested my well-known address from somewhere. I'll check the headers next time. -A On Mon,

curious spam...

2020-09-14 Thread William Herrin
Howdy, I've noticed something odd. When I lived in Virginia, I started receiving email directly to my gmail box from my U.S. Representative. Unsolicited spam from Congressmen is nothing new but it was a little odd that they found my gmail box (which I don't give out) and not one of the hundreds