Re: Spam wars (was test)

In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Anahata wrote:
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Jon Freeman wrote:
> 
>> I don't think it's the newsgroups.
> 
> I do. Last year I posted two or three messages to some newsgroups from my 
> work email address, and I get lots of spam now, which started about a
> week after the postings. That address is not on a website, and I got no
> spam at all before.

Yes. I've seen both the From: and the Reply-To: lines from my news postings
used as addresses to spam. The first more frequently than the second, of
course.

-- 
Richard Robinson
"The whole plan hinged upon the natural curiosity of potatoes" - S. Lem

If you want my address, put beulah where the spam trap is.