I know very little of how spammers get e-mail addresses, but from the
various suggestions the more knowledgeable among you have made it seems to
me that the mere act of using an e-mail box for it's intended purpose lays
it open to those parasites.
I do know that the internet is a very insecure public network which is why
anything of a sensitive nature has to be enrypted using the most
sophisticated algortithms known.
Phil Hall
----- Original Message -----
From: "Pierre Abbat" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, October 05, 2005 1:19 AM
Subject: [USMA:34744] Re: spam targetted at details used only in usma
correspondence
On Tuesday 04 October 2005 19:47, Terry Simpson wrote:
> 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.
The mailing list archives are public, and the address is in there. A
sophisticated spambot could grab it.
phma
