[Az-Geocaching] spam

[Noshdoo Tsoh]

Notice that my original post did not have my geocaching address in it. Your
reply does include it.

-----Original Message-----
From: az-geocaching-bounces at listserv.azgeocaching.com
[mailto:az-geocaching-bounces at listserv.azgeocaching.com]On Behalf Of Apryl
Clark
Sent: Tuesday, March 29, 2005 9:06 AM
To: listserv at azgeocaching.com
Subject: RE: [Az-Geocaching] spam


I did that and the only entry that came up were 2 listserve entries. Granted
my hubby used my hotmail acct last week to list a vehicle we have for sale
and now I'm getting 7000 car ad spams but other than that I haven't noticed
an increase...Sorry!



>From: "Noshdoo Tsoh" <geocaching at deepsouthwest.com>
>Reply-To: listserv at azgeocaching.com
>To: <listserv at azgeocaching.com>
>Subject: [Az-Geocaching] spam
>Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2005 09:04:42 -0700
>
>I've been using my geocaching email address for over two years and was
proud
>to say I haven't received any spam email. I posted to this listserv last
>week and now I am beginning to get junk emails sent to my geocaching email
>address. I investigated a little bit and here's what I found:
>
>All posts are allowed to be Googled by the listserve admins (they are
>searchable on Google). That is not a problem by itself. But when certain
>users on the listserve reply to someone else's post, their email program
>settings cause the original email address to be shown, even if your email
>address wasn't shown in the original message. Hotmail seems to do this,
>maybe others.
>
>If you receive spam to your listserve address, try this:
>
>1. go to http://www.google.com
>2. enter in your listserve email address and search
>3. if any entries come up, there's a guaranteed spam source
>(all entries may not be from this listserve, though they are in my case)
>
>I'd be interested to hear other comments, insights on this. I hate spam, as
>I'm sure most do. If there's no way to avoid this on this listserve, I
would
>be more comfortable with a forum format where emails could be better
>protected.
>
>noshdoo tsoh
>
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