1 Mar
2004
1 Mar
'04
3:39 p.m.
Quoth Zane H. Healy, who quoth another:
Another possibility is that classiccmp's web-archive of past posts may
have been scanned for addresses. I had the same thing happen a while back
with the Tolkien Sarcasm Page (http://flyingmoose.org/tolksarc), and
began getting large quantities of junk mail listed as coming from other
contributors (who, in turn, got junk mail purporting to be from me).
When I started getting mail from my old, long-dead Netcom shell account, I
knew it was suspicious. :)
I altered all the e-mail addresses on that site to make them less
machine-harvestable. It seems to have helped. Whether that's something the
classiccmp website needs to do or not is a different question, though.
-O.-
Yo Zane: I
just got some rather bizarre e-mail from you personally,
which I don't think you sent - but *something* posing as you did..
Best look to your System, and the Security thereof...
My guess is someone on the list with both of us in their address book has a
virus. I only use 'elm' on Unix and 'Eudora' on Mac OS X for email with
this account.