Jason Fleshman wrote: > Melissa 'Liss' Tyson wrote: > >> Hi all. >> >> I'm a long-time Moz user (well long-time in the development of >> Mozilla) who just finally joined the mailing lists. I'm enjoying >> reading the lists, but I have one complaint. >> >> This email account has been up for almost a month. I've been subbed >> to a lot of info and security lists in that time. I've never posted >> to any of them, just read 'em and I've never gotten one piece of >> spam. Until last night. When I signed up for these lists. >> >> In the past twelve hours, I've gotten six junk emails (No, I have not >> ever /had/ a penis and even if I did, I would not want your fscking >> pills...). One of these mails was actually received from one of the >> Moz lists and it was the exact same as two of the others that have >> been popping up in this inbox. >> >> Quite obviously, my address was grabbed somehow in relation to >> signing up for these lists. Anyone know wtf is going on? >> >> Liss, who knows she's also opening herself up to harvesters by just >> posting. >> > > These mailing lists are also Usenet groups (which is how most of the > people here access them, FWIW). Spammers post here, hoping to find > someone dumb enough to read their messages. So nobody's spamming you > directly; they're spamming all of us. > > Although if you're going to post, I would recommend getting a Yahoo, > Hotmail, or other free spambucket account to use as your return address. > > --Jason > Spoofing works decently well too, although it has to be a unique spoof. Spammers have probably figured out how to delete NOSPAM by now.
-- Albert "We must have a better word than 'prefabricated'. Why not 'ready-made'?" --Winston Churchill If sending email, remove the obvious spam-preventer from my email address.
