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Subject: 
Re: Still spammin!
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lugnet.admin.general
Date: 
Wed, 30 Apr 2003 14:50:15 GMT
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On Wed, Apr 30, 2003 at 01:05:33PM +0000, Dave Schuler! wrote:
Someone recently noticed that address lists appear to have been harvested
from LUGNET's posting roster.  I applaud with delight the recent
spamproofing feature in the email address!  Sadly, it seems that some finks
still have lists from prior to this enhancement.

sorry to say, but those emails already harvested will never stop getting
spam now.  Your only option is to abandon that address, and start a new
(Safe) one.

Or, just install really good spam filters, like spamassassin. :)

Dan



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  Re: Still spammin!
 
(...) Popfile (available at Sourceforge) is also very good once trained -Orion (21 years ago, 30-Apr-03, to lugnet.admin.general)
  Re: Still spammin!
 
(...) What is a safe address? My "safest" address is one that actually contains the word NOSPAM. :) So far, the harvesters have filtered out that one... Today is the last day of my 30 days evaluation period of McAffe's SpamKiller. I must say I'm not (...) (21 years ago, 1-May-03, to lugnet.admin.general)
  Re: Still spammin!
 
(...) I've just started forwarding all my spam to Bruce Schlickbernd. Problem solved. (...) It doesn't seem to happen often enough to be a major problem for me yet, and I'm gratified that the Microsoft is so concerned about my security. Dave! (21 years ago, 1-May-03, to lugnet.admin.general)

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  Still spammin!
 
Maintaining the trend of LUGNET-culled spamlists, some enterprising soul has kindly sent me the latest 238K "security update from the Microsoft." Much as I appreciate the sender's concern for my security, I deleted the email, as I have done with (...) (21 years ago, 30-Apr-03, to lugnet.admin.general)

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