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Re: [cobalt-users] IMPORTANT - Email harvesting
- Subject: Re: [cobalt-users] IMPORTANT - Email harvesting
- From: "Edward Bishop" <eddie@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue Aug 21 21:14:08 2001
- List-id: Mailing list for users to share thoughts on Cobalt products. <cobalt-users.list.cobalt.com>
> Anyway back to the original post: Since subscribing to this list I have
> suddenly started receiving two/three spam mails each day. I am very
> careful about handing out this email address and it is pretty clear the
> spam started after I subscribed.
>
> What this indicates is that there is email harvesting going on.
For what it's worth, I've been on the list a few months and haven't had this
spam.
Perhaps your blue-chip email address looks more attractive to spammers than
mine does. Otherwise, it must have been mined/harvested elsewhere.
Eddie Bishop