Re: [tlug] Email address munging in the TLUG archives (C&C)

["Zev Blut" <zb@example.com>]

On Fri, 08 Dec 2006 15:01:31 +0900, Curt Sampson  
<cjs@example.com> wrote:

> On Fri, 8 Dec 2006, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:
>
> > If the majority of TLUG members use closely guarded email addresses as
> > their posting address, then yes, harvesting is the bigger problem for
> > the list as a whole.  Otherwise, it's a judgment call.
>
> Even there, I should note that I do have a "closely guarded" e-mail
> address (for my keitai) that does not show up in a search on Google,
> Yahoo or MSN. It was ok for the first couple of years, but now it
> regularly gets a couple of spam messages per day (beyond what my
> SMTP-level filtering blocks.)
>
> I don't know how spammers got it, but get it they did.

A friend/family member that you mailed with the address got a virus
and it dug through the address book or mails and found it.  In many
ways, I think it may be next to impossible to have a totally spam free
email address these days.