Re: TCPIP 5.3, VAX VMS 7.3: how did this mail get through?

From: Peter Weaver (WeaverConsultingServices_at_sympatico.ca)
Date: 04/28/04 

Date: Wed, 28 Apr 2004 15:48:39 -0400

Phillip Helbig---remove CLOTHES to reply wrote:
>...
> This means it is a valid email address, and since it is in the clear
> it can be harvested. Why does it get so little spam?

The e-mail address I have uses for posting for the last year or so is
valid. But I only receive one or two spam messages a day (not including
virus attacks, and excluding the time that Jerrold Schiff (you know, the
guy who posts really stupid VAX-Alpha migration questions from
tutor@cfl.rr.com) decided to sign me (and Paul Sture) up for a bunch of
newsletters). The e-mail account that I have not used for posting in the
last year receives 70 - 90 spams a day, many of those spams include a cc
list that has people who left the company over two years ago. But every
spam message that goes to this account gets reported to spamcop, the
other account uses MS Exchange which makes spam reporting extremely
difficult. 

-- 
Peter Weaver
Weaver Consulting Services Inc.
Canadian VAR for CHARON-VAX
www.weaverconsulting.ca

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