On Mon, Jun 02, 2003 at 12:57:05PM +0100, Nigel Metheringham wrote:
> On Mon, 2003-06-02 at 12:48, Tony Finch wrote:
> > I had to ask one of my previous employers to switch to a blackhole
> > because their autoresponder was irritating all sorts of random people
> > owing to the quantity of forged spam sent to my old address.
>
> Surely a straight bounce should cause that many problems?
You underestimate the amount of forged spam I get. I saw several responses
a week to email "from" one of my working addresses to the expired one,
and every so often I would get complaints from third parties who were
victims of this collateral spam.
I've never gone in for obscuring my email address, and it shows...
Tony.
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