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RE: Latest Security Pack

Subject: RE: Latest Security Pack
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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