[Icom] arrl e- mail spem help please

Fri, 27 Jun 2003 10:45:23 -0500

You miss the point.  If you use your arrl.net address on a web page, it =
will
be mined and you will get spam.  Likewise, if you use your aol.com =
address
on a web page, you will get spam.  Matter of fact, with aol.com you =
don't
need to do anything to get spam.  It will happen.

Try this.  Go to google.  Search [email protected].  You'll get at least =
three
hits.  Two of these are archived postings from lists.  The other is a =
club
roster.  That roster alone guarantees, over a period of six to twelve
months, that you will have spam.  Then search you aol.com address.  =
There
are no hits.  When there are, the spam will pick up.

The reason that I don't have spam at my arrl.net address is simply that =
I
*NEVER* use it on a web page or in posting to a list.

This list doesn't seem to have an open archive that has been picked up =
by
Google and others.  The lists at contesting.com and QRP-L do and any
postings there will eventually result in spam to the address used.

73,
Mike WA0SXV

-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On
Behalf Of [email protected]
Sent: Friday, June 27, 2003 10:20
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [Icom] arrl e- mail spem help please

In a message dated 06/26/2003 21:25:01 Eastern Daylight Time,=20
[email protected] writes:

<< I have *never* received a spam message to the arrl.net address.
 Sorry guys -- blame yourselves, not the ARRL.>>

Mike-  You are a lucky guy.  I was getting tremendous amounts of SPAM,=20
200~300/week all via my @arrl.net alias.  I discontinued the alias for a
week, and=20
SPAM fell to 5 pieces.  Re-activated the @arrl.net alias for the next =
week
and=20
SPAM went up to 270 pieces that week.  I discontinued my use of the =
ARRL.net

forwarding alias permantly after that experiment.  I'm back down to 5 to
maybe=20
10 per week now.  You couldn't pay me enough to go back to using the=20
forwarding alias.

73,  Blair k3yd