Re: really offtopic: in my spam folder

On Fri, 26 Aug 2005 23:24:48 -0700, Brooks Moses
<bmoses-nospam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:


>My conclusion at this point is that either (a) spammers mostly just
>discard "nospam" addresses at this point rather than trying to unmunge
>them, or (b) spammers do a lot less harvesting of emails from Usenet
>than they used to.

I accidentally used my "jlc1" address when posting to a newsgroup,
and started getting spam on it within a couple of days. That was just
a few months ago, and I'm still getting some spam on it. The amount
seems to be *slowly* increasing, too. I'm going to have to switch
to jlc2 at some point.

(Actually, I didn't: I used a real e-mail address sending to a
mailing list which also gets mirrored to a newsgroup. Because it
works both ways, messages to the newsgroup turn up in my mailbox,
and I replied there, instead of firing up the newsreader.)

Jonathan

--
Backlog in rasfc: 200
Mail to spam auto-deleted, use jlc1 instead.
(That's jay ell cee one, if your font makes l and 1 look the same)

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