Subject: | RE: Latest Security Pack |
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From: | Dan Dugan <> |
Date: | Fri, 17 Oct 2003 16:18:12 -0700 |
Barb Beck, you wrote, >Mail is now being scanned by some unethical servers that it goes through >getting to you. Addresses subjects and some contact etc are harvested. >Even if you post your address nowhere it is being picked up. Of course I >have had my alias for years and three old addresses forward to that. My >addresses are all over the internet so I just grin and bear it with the >spam. The thing that really puzzles me is that I have a university addres= s >that does not forward anyplace and that I have NEVER used nor sent an emai= l >from. It still gets 40 - 50 spams a day. I don't think it's servers. Viruses invade individuals' computers and harvest their email address lists. -Dan Dugan ________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________ |
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