On Wednesday 15 January 2003 12:57, Paul Tansom wrote:
Basically I avoid quoting emails (other than my own) to lists where possible. To be honest the main source of issues with this is the SmoothWall list (less said the better), but it has to be said that since the SmoothWall list was made available as a web archive (now closed again), my spam quota has rocketed, and become more unpleasant
I see your point, ALUG and personal email's are about the only place I use my *real* email address. ALUG because after looking at how the list archives are presented I felt fairly safe.
The amount of spam I received did suddenly skyrocket late last year, however the interesting thing is that an additional btinternet account I have but have never sent from has also started receiving unsolicited mail ! Figuring that someone must have figured out a way to harvest BT's registration system for valid addresses. I contacted BT but have never had a sensible reply to confirm or deny this.
On a side note-
Now I use SpamAssassin, and I must say that as a completely maintance free spam killer it is fantastic ! I get about a 80% hit rate on unsolicited mail, but the most important thing is that I have NEVER had a false positive.