Melissa 'Liss' Tyson wrote: > Hi all. > > I'm a long-time Moz user (well long-time in the development of Mozilla) > who just finally joined the mailing lists. I'm enjoying reading the > lists, but I have one complaint. > > This email account has been up for almost a month. I've been subbed to > a lot of info and security lists in that time. I've never posted to any > of them, just read 'em and I've never gotten one piece of spam. Until > last night. When I signed up for these lists. > > In the past twelve hours, I've gotten six junk emails (No, I have not > ever /had/ a penis and even if I did, I would not want your fscking > pills...). One of these mails was actually received from one of the Moz > lists and it was the exact same as two of the others that have been > popping up in this inbox. > > Quite obviously, my address was grabbed somehow in relation to signing > up for these lists. Anyone know wtf is going on? > > Liss, who knows she's also opening herself up to harvesters by just > posting. >
These mailing lists are also Usenet groups (which is how most of the people here access them, FWIW). Spammers post here, hoping to find someone dumb enough to read their messages. So nobody's spamming you directly; they're spamming all of us. Although if you're going to post, I would recommend getting a Yahoo, Hotmail, or other free spambucket account to use as your return address. --Jason
