Phil Reynolds writes: -+------------------- | I kept this email address specifically for use for my postings on, and | to help me sort postings from, this list. | | It seems that somebody has harvested this address, as I received an | off-list spam to it. | | Is anyone responsible for the administration of this list interested in | details, or shall I just change this address? |
I do not run this list, but I do run others, some of which are quite small. The quite small ones often have no list-directed spam at all as the list names would not be guessable. When a previously spam-free list starts getting list-directed spam it has been correlated with adding someone to the list or having a list member cc a list-directed message to other parties. If you (any "you") wanted to track down the vector, I'd start with list additions immediately preceding the appearance of the spam. In like manner, whenever I buy anything on the web or do anything where, for better or worse, an e-mail address is essential to completing the transaction, I use the firm's name at a domain I own for no other purpose, e.g., [EMAIL PROTECTED] That may be approximately what you are doing as well. Honestly, no commercial firm has lost my effectively use-once addresses and the domain I use for this purpose has only a whitelist filter for things like "paintstore" that I've actually used. As such, I'm tempted to conclude that e-mail address harvesting tends to be dominated by certified pre-0wned home users. Ruminating, --dan _______________________________________________ Gnupg-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users
