Re: [Security-Discuss] This is odd, too

On May 27, 2004 03:38, KevinO wrote:
> Anne Wilson wrote:
> > Just what is happening here?
> >
> > Anne
>
> Someone that has your private address has shared it. They may have done it
> by getting themselves infected with a worm a virus.
>
> A real common method with 'friends and families' is when someone sends out
> an email and carbon copies a bunch of different people. This one really
> pisses me off, and it has become painfully obvious to anyone that has done
> this to me.
>
> Doing a 'reply-to-all' and saying something like:
>
> "You didn't ask me if you could share my email address with [email protected],
> [email protected], [email protected], etc. but if you had, the answer would have been no"
>
> can be very effective.

Another good one is those free web/email greeting cards. I guess people don't 
stop to think about why someone would go to the trouble to set up a site like 
that and give it all away. The answer of course is that they sell your email 
address to the spammers. I had a widely used alias corrupted that way by a 
well meaning family member and had to discard it. Which left a number of 
people with no way to contact me, as I had moved in the interim. A real pain.

-- 
Ron Hunter-Duvar
ronhd at users dot sourceforge dot net

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