From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Mar 24 20:42:28 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5DC0316A4CE for ; Wed, 24 Mar 2004 20:42:28 -0800 (PST) Received: from www.mcmanis.com (www.mcmanis.com [66.125.189.29]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 08A8043D2F for ; Wed, 24 Mar 2004 20:42:28 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from cmcmanis@mcmanis.com) Received: (qmail 56428 invoked from network); 25 Mar 2004 04:52:39 -0000 Received: from home.mcmanis.com (HELO manowar.mcmanis.com) (66.125.189.30) by www.mcmanis.com with SMTP; 25 Mar 2004 04:52:39 -0000 Message-Id: <6.0.0.22.2.20040324204306.02fbb798@66.125.189.29> X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 6.0.0.22 Date: Wed, 24 Mar 2004 20:47:23 -0800 To: questions@freebsd.org From: Chuck McManis In-Reply-To: <20040324154955.R67162-100000@cowpie.acm.vt.edu> References: <20040324154955.R67162-100000@cowpie.acm.vt.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Subject: Re: ! why? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 25 Mar 2004 04:42:28 -0000 At 12:50 PM 3/24/2004, you wrote: >Why have you sold my email address to spammers? > >The "clint+freebsddotorg@acm.vt.edu" email was a one-time disposable email >address that I only ever gave to FreeBSD.org. > >Now I am receiving spam email targeted at that address. >An address I only gave YOU. > >Any suggestions or response? > >-Clint Lipinski I doubt anyone sold it, it appeared unprotected in the following page (accessible by google) Which is a response to a PR you filed. Before you accuse someone of selling your email address try googling for it, then try googling on netnews for it. You'd be surprised. --Chuck