On Friday 05 May 2006 22:19, Paul Cartwright wrote:
On Fri May 5 2006 4:51 pm, Patrick Shanahan wrote:
* Paul Cartwright
[05-04-06 06:43]: but normally there will be an ABUSE site listed for a domain, and you can send them an email, and if you live in the US you can also copy the federal abuse site: "uce@ftc. gov"
The address has been changed in the last few days to spam@uce.gov.
please PLEASE don't ever quote my email address in a message again. I don't want to start another thread, just leave it alone.
Yes, I also got a bounce when I sent a message to the old address, and I have since sent a few to the new one.
-- Paul Cartwright Registered Linux user # 367800
Sorry about this Paul. He insists on doing it, I have been complaining about him doing it to me for years, but he just carries on. In the early days, people used to say that your email address could be scraped from anywhere, not necessarily the archives. I have even posted some quite conclusive evidence that spammers are scraping from the archives, but nowadays, people just tell you to accept it as a 'fact of net life'. Last time Mr Shanahan posted my email, he indicated that he was doing it deliberately. I think that it is just plain antisocial to knowingly expose fellow list members' email addresses to the low grade criminals who run spamming operations. Others have suggested that he reconfigure his mail client, but he resists that. He also complains if noobs top post or hijack threads, because he believes in netiquette. I have very little doubt he will contrive to post some reply to this, just to get my email address into the archives again.