[Sigia-l] a plea regarding the list archive & junkmail

[Laura Norvig]

It's not just spam harvesters, but once your address has been 
verified (didn't bounce back as undeliverable) people are out there 
selling your address on lists willy-nilly.

I have noticed an exponential increase in spam to a certain address I 
use despite the fact that I now take precautions to keep the address 
off the web, etc.

I have a very good spam filter provided by my ISP. The number of 
emails shunted to the junkmail folder have increased from about 150 
per week to over 400 per week just in the last few months. Direct 
marketers are catching on and there's no stopping this train.

Laura


At 1:49 PM -0500 10/31/02, Andrew Hinton wrote:
>I'm not whining, really! I just put the call out because I didn't know who
>else was having to deal with this problem, and who might be able to rectify
>it? (meaning, somehow change the archive or protect it so that email address
>harvesters can't get to them).