Re: [boost] Spamming through Boost mailing list

From: Bo Persson (bop_at_[hidden])
Date: 2006-09-23 11:26:22

Keith MacDonald wrote:
> The message got through my spam filter because the body of it was
> actually a bitmapped image of the text.  However, my point was that
> the only time I have ever revealed that email address was when I 
> signed up to the
> Boost mailing lists.  The spammer sent the message directly to me,
> not through the mailing list, so it seems likely that he got my 
> email
> address from the mailing list database - although it could have been
> a random guess!

You never know what the spammers do!

I have a special mail address used to forward mail from my old ISP to 
my new domain. It has never been used for anything else, ever.

But it does get spammed!

Bo Persson