DeTomaso Mailing List: March 99, Message #267

Tomas wrote:
The sad thing is that it seems like someone's scanned the archives for 
addresses.


Scott wrote:
The only accounts affected are the List accounts

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Note: Just delete if your not interest.  I know the emails will start 
coming soon saying stop talking about it, so I promise this is my 
last post on the subject. (that's a grand total of 2).


Some others wrote me off-line thinking that I'll stop the lists spams by changing my email.

No, that's not why I changed my email.  The only way to stop (or greatly reduce) 
spam to the list is having the only the mail from the lists subscribers be forwarded. 
Yet that's out of my hands. 

Now the emails one uses to subscribe to this list is being scanned off for these 
big email lists and you will get email directly at your home address.  That's why 
for every spam that you see on this list, most of us also get one addressed 
directly to our email (yes, I can tell the difference). 

What I'm saying is like what Tomas touched on and what Scott said above, the email 
address you use on these lists will get infected with spam.  So I'm now using an address 
for this list that isn't for my friends and family yet only for lists like this and once it has 
been put on enough spam lists I'll just change it keeping my personal account clean.

Just thought I'd share this for others that would like to keep a good clean home 
personal email address.  Sure wish I had heard this before my personal email was ruined.
I liked having my address being a simple "my name @ my domain", now it's on these 
spam lists.  

Curt T.
1TO9 MPG