No offense taken. I just want list members to know that we take this very
seriously. Across all my lists I have about 14,000 addresses on various
lists. If someone was getting the addresses you can be sure I would hear
about it real quick.
I have taken significant steps to protect your addresses from spammers,
my servers from being used by spammers and the lists from being hit by
spammers.
If you have your email address on a web page you have certainly opened
yourself up to spammers. They have little computers that crawl the
Internet and cull all the addresses they find. So not only do I get SPAM
but I usually gut 3-7 copies of each one as they get all the addresses I
use for different purposes.
Eric
listmom
>Eric,
>I didn't mean to slam the list's security. I was just trying to narrow down
>the possible sources and thought that if others here had received that same
>little ad it would give me a clue. Looks like nobody did.
>
>My ISP generally does a pretty good job of filtering those and being in
>Washington state probably helps reduce it a bit.
>
>It is very possible that my web site has opened some flood gates because I
>just added a "Mailto" tag to it. If that's the case I'll remove that tag.
>
>I apologie if I've offended.
>
>John
>>The list is not now and has never been open for anyone except me to
>>review the addresses of the list members.
>>
>>I have an email address that I use exclusively for the lists and it has
>>been free of SPAM.
>>
>>The only potential way someone could get addresses from the list would be
>>to subscribe and harvest the addresses of people who post to the list.
>>This would be a considerable effort for the few addresses they would gain.
>>
>>More common ways spammers get email addresses is from news groups, chat
>>rooms and web pages.
>>
>>I take the confidentiality of our lists very seriously and make every
>>effort to keep your addresses private and SPAM off the lists.
>>Eric
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