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Subject: Re: Someone in this forum is selling email addresses (OT)

Author: Angrim

Date: 23:04:43 09/10/03

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On September 10, 2003 at 05:28:32, Peter Fendrich wrote:

>I think you all are as annoyed as I am about all this spam filling my inbox.
>I have used 3 different email adresses over time in this forum.
>The first email adress I used was "infected" from start.
>The second one was used here only and was never mentioned anywhere else until I
>begun to get spam.
>The third one has never been used anywhere else than in this forum and now I
>receive a considerable amount of spam.
>It is not possible to automatically find these adresses with spider technique
>because the forum is password protected - you have to sign up before reading it.
>The addresses must have been catched by someone in this forum - right?
>Maybe there is some mirror somewhere?
>Any similar experiences?
>
>/Peter

The only spam that I get at the email address that I use for this
forum is from les-echecks.com(likely spelled wrong)
This spam is in french(which I can't read) and html with images(which my
email program parses as gibberish), and shows up roughly once a week.
As far as I can tell it is some chess-related company, so likely they
got my address here.  I think that I post often enough that if
the addresses were being harvested regularly I would be getting a
lot more.

Angrim
ps. and if the person sending those lesecheks.com emails sees this,
please remove me from your list.  I delete them without reading, but
it still wastes a few seconds of my connect time downloading them.
thanks



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