[Slackbuilds-users] Spam - is it only me?

Niels Horn niels.horn at gmail.com
Tue Dec 7 14:31:48 UTC 2010


On Tue, Dec 7, 2010 at 12:25 PM, Martin Pagnan <mpagnan at acanac.net> wrote:
> Hi,
> I have suddenly been flooded with spam. I am trying to understand how my
> email address got into the hands of nasties. I recently joined Slackbuilds
> Users List and I notice that the content is searchable through Google
> together with the email addresses in the format "<someone> at <mail site>".
> It is by now a pretty old and easy trick to parse " at " as @ and to try the
> address.
>
> Is anyone else at the site experiencing problems?

Not more than normal... My e-mail address has been on the internet for
years, through newsgroups, forums, etc.
But my spam-filter works well. I get the occasional false-positive,
but I can live with that.

Niels


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