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Re: Republic of Congo Scam - hit me and other cox.net Lego Fans
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lugnet.admin.general
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Date:
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Fri, 21 Feb 2003 14:00:19 GMT
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On Fri, Feb 21, 2003 at 06:13:00AM +0000, Jeremy Scott wrote:
> Well, we all get spam. I don't get too much, but I get some! Today I got
> three from the same spammer. The spam was sent to cox.net Lego fans. I
> know bhamilto1 (Brad Hamilton), copyright (myself) socalray (I know I have
> seen this guy here!) and legodan44 (obviously a lego guy) all are lego fans
> and were each one of the 20 who got hit. Since I would know of no other
> place my email would be listed with other Lego fans, I smell a fish.
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> So my suspicion suggests that the spider or guy hit Lugnet to get our info.
> Just thought I'd let you know!
nod - spiders can harvest LUGNET for email addresses. There's really
nothing anyone can do about it, either. For one thing, if we hide the
email addresses in the web interface, we will lose an important
functionallity - the ability to send private messages to people. But
more importantly - it would be meaniless, since you cannot hide the
email addresses in the NNTP interface.
The only thing you can do is to use a spamblock'ed address when you
post. And even that would be probably too late, as your current address
is already posted.
Sorry,
Dan
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