Check out directory harvest attacks as among the many ways that spammers can get email addresses. Don't think that just because you only use an address in one area that it can't be harvested by any number of methods and used for spam.
---------- Original Message ----------- From: "Terry Simpson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[email protected]> Sent: Wed, 5 Oct 2005 00:47:15 +0100 Subject: [USMA:34742] Re: spam targetted at details used only in usma correspondence > > Of Brian White > > How does that have anything to do with being derived from this list? > > It was sent to a private email address that is only used for this list. ------- End of Original Message -------
