On Mon, 16 Apr 2007, Richard Harke wrote:
On Sat April 14 2007 11:58, Till Stegers wrote:
Another way spammers can get this kind of info (name + address) is by
compromising the machine of somebody that has your info in their address
book. For instance, if you send you vCard with full address around, a
lot of people might have this in their address book.
But again, why would they use my wifes name instead of mine?
Richard
If your wife has ever gotten an email from some well-meaning friend or
family and it was addressed to a long list of people, then you can
consider that address to be in danger of spam. Sometimes I forget and send
an email to someone without changing it to my junk bucket address. When I
see them send out a huge "look at this cool thing" email to everyone in
their address book I ask them that if they are going to do that then
please use [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Gandalf Parker
-- Community.Net is a dead domain of an ISP which crashed and burned.
However you can wave a dead chicken and still write to me as gandalf at
that address. http://www.jargon.net/jargonfile/w/waveadeadchicken.html
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