No... it doesn't take much at all. The "employee" as the president of the company. He made a bunch of sales on eBay, purchased a handful of things from online outfits, and POW! He was getting upwards of 200 per day. I can understand it happening to me, I post in various newsgroups and lists, but not this guy.
I have a little trick I use for this kind of situation. When I need to give an
email address to someplace where I think the list might get sold or the address might otherwise attract spammers the username I give is based on the name of the
company I'm giving it to. The mail is still directed to my main account so I
get the email just fine as long as I want to, but as soon as I see it
misused I can shut it off in a matter of minutes (I use sendmails virtusertable) and I even have an idea who it was who sold my address. I can even turn it back on temporarily if I need to deal with that company some more later.
Of course I get spam anyway, but not the bucketloads you're talking about. I'm also a very happy user of SpamAssassin!
Steve
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