Hi Folks,
I only use the email address this spam was sent to, on this SM List. So I'm thinking that this SM List, or perhaps Lowend Mac lists in general, are being harvested for email addresses by spammers.
Spammers can and will harvest from any list or other public forum that's archived on the web.
Use a throwaway address for your list posts. When the spam gets too deep, unsubscribe, abandon the address, and resubscribe with a new one.
If you have a web site, never post your email address. Provide a web-to-email form instead (make sure it's a good one, not formmail.pl) and make sure that your email address can't be slurped up by the spambots. We use a combination of an image of the text email address (can be read by humans, but not 'bots) and a specialized web form that pretty much requires a human operator.
My mail servers currently reject about 80% of the attempts to deliver mail as spam, and I rarely hear any complaints about legitimate mail being rejected. We also insert "spamtrap" or "poison" addresses on many of the websites we build, so that any mail coming in to a list of addresses that includes [EMAIL PROTECTED] is automatically identified as spam and rejected.
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