On Tue, 13 Aug 2002, Alexei Khlebnikov wrote: > > Today i got a spam by Sharp Systems, offering a LCD display. > > Did any of you (especially the ones who did participate in a discussion > > related to LCD displays) get that spam, too? > > Please tell me, i'm trying to find out why they spammed me... > > (It wasn't among the usual spam that is eaten by my filters, but it was > > only sent to my @debian.org address. I usually get spam multiple times, > > this one i got only once, and it had proper headers. So it has to be > > directed by some way, probably abuse of debian mailing lists, a thing we > > have to stop - but it might have been some other reason they spammed me, > > probably they spammed all @debian.org addresses?) > > So if you got one, too - please tell me. > > I've got this spam message as well (to my @scnsoft.com address). Seems like > they grepped maillist to get per-person addresses.
While I didn't get this spam (I have talked about LCD's in the past, I think), I did a ssearch on my email address, and found this and a bunch of other lists are archived for all to see around the web, without our email addresses obfuscated. Needless to say, I was mightily PISSED OFF about this, but there is nothing I can do, short of not posting here, because I can't obfuscate my mail address when using mail! USENET yes, mail no. Short of forging my headers :( I have to say, I am terribly surprise gnu.org and debian.org archive our mail without obfuscation :( But then again, kinda a moot point for me, I find my mail address is everywhere but my own site, because I have no control about that. When I commandeer the world, it might be a different matter :) -- TimC -- http://astronomy.swin.edu.au/staff/tconnors/ I'm sorry, but all questions must be in the form of a question. -- pieceoftheuniverse
