On Wednesday 10 November 2004 13:35, you wrote: > An increase of 20 or more letters after every message of mine to the list, > for more than 3 times, is more than a coincidence... I did not send the > address around in other ways. > > Donatella > > http://web.tiscali.it/awebd > > >
Donatella, there is no person responsible for sending your mail address to some spam list. messages to mailinglists are always saved in archives. Wayne's lutelist is the same in this: you can find messages from many years back. The point is that these archives can be read by 'robots' too: programs which search the net for email addresses. Unfortunately such programs grow more detailed in years, so they only look for recent messages of course, resulting in your address in the new spam list. Your email address can by the way also be found on your website. And robots also look on webpages... It would be a good solution to remove all email addresses from the archive logs. There are only a few possibilities to solve this: first filter your email according to what YOU wish to receive, i.e. make filters in outlook, eudora, thunderbird, kmail or whatever program you are using for known mail addresses. Move all other mail to a spam folder and just look a few times a week. Second: your tiscali provider should help with filtering spam already. Contacting a provider is however a difficult business. The positive news is that the first spammer has been brought before court in the US. taco To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
