[Lowfer] Getting Spammed?

[KD7JYK DM09]

: Email addresses are in the clear and it appears that an address
: harvester has made a score.
: Has anyone else been hit lately?
: I'm going to ask John Davis to delete my address from that page or maybe
: he can hide them.

Wouldn't matter, your address is all over the web.  Linux, a computer from 
the trash, a DOS-type text editor and a few lines of script  is all that's 
need to find/spoof accounts.  I found all the groups I could post to using 
your address in slightly longer than it took me to type your address.

Back around 2000 I created a new account.  I logged in for the first time 
about three days later.  It was over-run with spam.  How can this be???  At 
that time spammers used random character generators, tossed spam out and saw 
what stuck.  My new account was legit, no "recipient does not exist" error 
message, so it stuck.  By the end of the week, this new unused account had 
nearly a thousand spam messages in it.

Kurt