Hello Allie,

On Sat, 23 Aug 2003 06:55:53 -0500 GMT (23/08/2003, 18:55 +0700 GMT),
Allie Martin wrote:

A>> [every time I subscribed to - private/closed - yahoo groups with a
A>> fresh email account, it took only days until the spam started coming.
A>> I have no proof but I have the feeling that yahoo is selling mail
A>> adresses, or something]

> One of my least affected addresses where spamming is concerned is the
> address I use for all my yahoo subscriptions. <shrug>

Same here. OTOH, I created a hotmail account, and before I even told
anybody about it, I received spam on a daily basis. And it was not an
easy-to-guess only-first-name-based account.

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Cheers,
Thomas.

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