[Trombone-l] Spammers on Trombone L list

[Jeff Albert]

Stolen is the likely answer.  The most likely way is that one of the
list members has your address in his/her address book, and their
computer got a virus.  Then all of the addresses on that computer are
now on the spammer lists.  There are other ways, but that seems like
the most likely these days.

Good spam filters, or the delete button seem to be the only answer.  I
use a gmail account for the list, and get very little spam on this
address.  I think the gmail spam filtering is pretty good.

Jeff

On Sun, Mar 23, 2008 at 11:17 PM, TRBNTERRY <TRBNTERRY at webtv.net> wrote:
> I maintain a dedicated user name for the Trombone L list. Today was no
>  different than most days; Of 20 new messages, 4 were from Trombone L
>  members and 16 from spammers.
>
>  I would love to know how the spammers got the Trombone L name files.
>  Were they stolen, sold or just plain given away ?
>
>  Those of you who don't maintain a dedicated address file probably don't
>  know where all the spam is coming from that you receive.
>
>  But I can testify that I get more spam on Trombone L than the other 4
>  user-name files I maintain combined.
>
>  This is certainly a travesty for Trombone L. In all my years as a
>  member, I see a dwindling participation of a once very prominent and
>  informative forum. Could it be perhaps the profound increase in spam ?
>
>  Sincerely,
>
>  Mike Terry
>
>  "God looks down with favor upon those who create beauty"
>
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