phishing emails

[James Kosin]

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Vassilios Kotoulas wrote:

|On Thu, 2005-05-26 at 10:01 -0500, Thomas Cameron wrote:
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|>Just curious - what makes you think they got your address from this list
|>(as opposed to somewhere else)?
|
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|because I only use this adress for fedora mailing lists and never for
|any other purpose.

Vassilios,

Unfortuneately, when you post to any list (I do mean any), many other
independant sites host archives of the list and many many people on
this list receive email from the list with other peoples email
addrsses.  That the only secure email address is one that NEVER sends
an email.

You could alternately change sendmail (maybe) to only accept mail
delivery from a known source... but, that may quickly grow into a
massive project to manage.

I use Windows for convience sake more than anything else and I've
switched to Thuderbird to help filter the junk that comes in on our
exchange server.  The administrator of our other server has turned on
some low level junk controls to help cut down.  At one point on my
primary email (not this address), I was getting about 100-200 junk
email messages a weekend.  With 75-100 a day.

The junk mail has been minimal now; but, I still get some that come in
now and then 20-30 a day.

There are also many SPYware applications, ADDware or JUNKware I like
to call them.  Out there that may also collect this information.

I could RANT all day.  But, I have to get back to work.

Thanks,
James Kosin
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