Re: TECH: Yahoo and spam was Re: [CONLANG] The League of Lost Languages (was Re: Fakelangs)

Amanda Babcock scripsit:

> Unfortunately, today's spammers are now gathering their email lists
> directly from the address books and mail files of virus-compromised
> PC's.  I get spam mail these days with the spoofed return addresses of
> Conlang members, suggesting that some unknown third Conlang member's
> PC has a virus which harvested both our addresses from the posts received.
In addition, people like me whose mail addresses are all over the Internet
are going to be used to send spam regardless.  Protecting one's email
address from use (incoming or spoofed outgoing) by spammers is a hopeless
undertaking.  The only reliable thing to do is soup up your filters and
live behind them.

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