John Southern wrote:

> On Thursday 13 October 2005 23:51, Robert Newson wrote:
> 
>>The only place this address has been "given out publicly" is on a couple of
>>mailing lists, of which this is one.  There have been people who have
>>received spam from him on the other list - that could be the leak...
> 
> Probably as the Gllug list is publically archived.
> Also your previous address was all over comp.os.linux and alt.linux. A quick 
> read of these names then a groups search would give the new address and your 
> fsnet one.

hmmm

> I got back to your cigmorfil in 2002 in just a couple of minutes so I think 
> any decent spider could harvest most if not all usegroup and mailing list 
> addresses.

The fsnet one, like this, is an email domain - I must get round someday to 
proper incoming filtering.

cigmorfil...now that name has an interesting history.  I created the name 
for use in Mist (a version of MUD running on the DEC-10s at Essex Uni) and 
used to make "Witch" in 7 games.  (I ran as a female character as the start 
stats for Stamina and Dexterity were higher than for male characters, even 
though the strength was less, and they suited the kind of game I played 
better.)  It then got listed and finally made an arch-witch when I started 
to do development work on the game.  Not so interesting is its origin: it's 
sort of Welsh; a [sort of] translation of another name I was using at the time.

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