Tony,
Forgot to mention one other thing. I had a virus on a work computer (very
rare) about 3 years ago. I found out there was a virus because someone emailed
me and forwarded an email that the outlook program (corrupted by virus) had
sent. It would be important to determine that if someone was sending emails to
others on the list, it was not caused by a virus. A virus would be totally
un-intentional and not a reason to remove someone from a list. I would think
the benefit of doubt to allow someone to check their system first would be in
order.
Anyways, the other previously mentioned item about the publishing of email
addresses is an invitation to invasion of privacy without consent.
73,
Mike
Tony King - W4ZT <amps071806@w4zt.com> wrote:
Regarding SPAM to people on this list...
I have received and continue to receive SPAM to the email address (past
and present) that I use exclusively on this list. The email is NOT
coming from any address that is being used on this list, yet it is
coming directly to my specific amps email address. That is why I change
the email address frequently that I use here and block the old one.
Want to know why?
The reason why is because Contesting Dot Com publishes ALL of our email
addresses IN THE CLEAR on the archive. The spammers collect these email
addresses from the archive without having to sign in or do ANYTHING
except grab them and use them. Don't believe me? Do a Google search on
your specific email address you use on this list. See that your postings
including email addresses are all there.
I personally think it is up to the folks at Contesting Dot Com to take
full responsibility for this problem and do the right thing by taking
steps to insure that list members addresses and preferably ALL HEADERS
are not published in the wild where they can be abused by unnamed and
unreachable SPAMMERS. One option is to REQUIRE signing in by registered
users only to view the archives.
My latest SPAM to this address had the following pertinent headers is
posted below. Note that once your email address is out in the wild, it
can NEVER be fixed. That email address is ruined forever. The only way
to quit receiving that email is to change your address.
Administrator(s), do not be so quick to blame the individuals on this
list for a problem that you have created yourself.
Kindest regards,
Tony King, W4ZT
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Date: Thu, 3 Aug 2006 02:42:45 -0700 (PDT)
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From: Peter Wagner
Reply-To: wagner_esq@sify.com
Subject: Atten:: Tony King
To: amps071806@w4zt.com
Do a trace route to the source address 213.185.106.75 and you get this:
fus-rt004-fe-0-0-v3.its-dvb.globalconnex.net (80.255.48.4)
Administrator wrote:
> I have recently received complaints from subscribers to this list of
> spam from the list. On examining the alleged spam emails, it appears
> that one or more list subscribers have harvested e-mail addresses and
> are CCing each of the harvested addresses in addition to posting to
> the list. This must stop immediately!
>
> Anyone found to be engaging in this practice will be unsubscribed
> immediately and without further notice.
>
> 73,
>
> ... Administrator amps@contesting.com
>
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