It may have to do with when you joined. Spam has increased greatly over the past year or so, according to people I know who do get spam. I'm one of the lucky ones who gets almost no spam because I'm very careful about what I do with my address. Every time your e-mail address appears on a Web page, for example, it can be "harvested." LaRae's Locate a Lacemaker page is one example that comes to mind. When I realised that the addresses were unprotected, I replaced my private e-mail with a yahoo mail address that I use as my "spamable" address. If your address has appeared on a guild list, that could also be a source.
I see that you have a Yahoo account. From time to time, Yahoo changes its policies to put you on mailing lists (= send me spam). They send out an announcement and I always go into my yahoo profile and uncheck the boxes that allow them to send you junk mail. So it's worth checking your yahoo profile if you haven't done that for a while. Other possible sources of spam are clicking on those links at the bottom of spam that say "Click here to unsubscribe." All that does is tell the spammer that he's got a live address. Posting on usenet groups used to be another source of spam. Registering with your e-mail address for on-line surveys or newsletters or software can also result in your address being sent to a spammer. I use a throwaway address for those requests where I'm not sure whether I can trust the person at the other end. Avital Original Message: ----------------- From: Annette Gill [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Sun, 7 Dec 2003 08:53:57 -0000 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [lace-chat] Archives > From: "Avital Pinnick" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > I have not noticed any increase in spam since using mail-archive... I've noticed a big increase in spam since I joined Arachne. It may be nothing to do with the archiving, and it may be nothing to do with Arachne at all, but I do get a lot more spam now than I used to before I joined. Regards, Annette in London -------------------------------------------------------------------- mail2web - Check your email from the web at http://mail2web.com/ . To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
