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There's been another case of harvesting... I got an email at work today about
an egg farm for sale in Qld region. The seller actually stated where he got my
details: lugnet.loc.au.qld.mac [I think that's right.] He said he got it while
looking for some other info.
This seems more important to crack down on than broken (supposedly) mail
servers.
Benjamin Whytcross
[Who wishes he could at least still post to .loc.au and .org.au and who would
limit replies from work to as few as possible] ]
bwhytcro@pacificaccess.com.au
In lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade, Santosh Bhat writes:
> I've been spam, spam, spam sausages and spam sandwiched by it too. But I've
> never given my details to brickbay yet. So obviously this characters got
> contacts from elsewhere. I'm guessing they've used the membership list? on
> lugnet to pull out Aus only names.
>
> Santosh
>
> In lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade, David Low writes:
> > In lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade, Benjamin Whytcross writes:
> > > The same thing happened to me, although I believe that the addresses were
> > > harvested from brickbay [the "seller" had just signed up there on the 12th] • as
> > > one email address it was sent to [I got it at 2 email addresses] isn't used • in
> > > relation to lugnet, only brickbay, and another I [used to] use on lugnet
> > > wasn't sent to [I think].
> >
> > I sent him (guessing it's a guy) a "please don't spam me" email: in his
> > apologetic reply he said that he has addresses from lugnet, ebay and • brickbay.
> > He claimed that he was sent an extra Tour de France set from Europe and is
> > trying to pass it on to an Australian collector. In his first email he had
> > said, "If you want 2 set, I may try to get from local shop". I don't know • what
> > the whole story is, and I'm not really interested.
> >
> > For me the basic message is that at least one person has compiled an AFOL
> > address list, probably with fields for location and interests. :-(
> >
> > --DaveL
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| (...) Egg farm? Did I miss something in plant and animal science in the last few years? We're actually to the point that we grow eggs instead of getting them from chickens? (24 years ago, 18-Oct-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
| | | Re: Spam alert!
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| (...) Ben, Dunno if anyone in the mammoth thread suggested this, but you could always use the web interface at work. I'm forced to use this at a couple of sites, cos they block NNTP, and it's really not that bad. If you set up your posting settings, (...) (24 years ago, 18-Oct-00, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade, lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.org.au)
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