Someone else is misusing my email adress

ruby-talk
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Hello,

Today I saw that I have a lot of spam emails where my adress is used.
But im sure I did not send it.

I will investigate how my email (r.wobben@home.nl) is mis used.

Roelof

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Don't worry, almost everybody who posts here had their email address
spoofed in spam from some stupid little script-kiddy who thought he
was hot $#!7 for being about as significant as a gnat and for much the
same reason. It's trivial to do (which is why he managed to do it).

-Dave

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On Sat, May 31, 2014 at 2:59 AM, Roelof Wobben <rwobben@hotmail.com> wrote:

Today I saw that I have a lot of spam emails where my adress is used.
But im sure I did not send it.

I will investigate how my email (r.wobben@home.nl) is mis used.

--
Dave Aronson, freelance software developer (details @ www.Codosaur.us);
see also www.PullRequestRoulette.com, Blog.Codosaur.us, www.Dare2XL.com

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Don't worry, almost everybody who posts here had their email address
spoofed in spam from some stupid little script-kiddy who thought he
was hot $#!7 for being about as significant as a gnat and for much the
same reason. It's trivial to do (which is why he managed to do it).

It may have been trivial, but it was a huge annoyance (a flood of 300+ spam
mails to manage).
Hopefully someone can implement a mechanism to prevent this from happening
in the future..

cheers,
saji

Saji N Hameed,
ARC-ENV, Center for Advanced Information Science and Technology,
University of Aizu, Tsuruga, Ikki-machi,
Aizuwakamatsu-shi, Fukushima 965-8580,
Japan

Tel: +81242 37-2736
Fax:+81242 37-2760
email: saji@u-aizu.ac.jp
url: http://enformtk.u-aizu.ac.jp
bib: Web of Science
code: sajinh (Saji Hameed) · GitHub

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On Mon, Jun 2, 2014 at 9:10 AM, Dave Aronson < ruby-talk.list.2.TRex@codosaur.us> wrote:

On Sat, May 31, 2014 at 2:59 AM, Roelof Wobben <rwobben@hotmail.com> > wrote:

> Today I saw that I have a lot of spam emails where my adress is used.
> But im sure I did not send it.
>
> I will investigate how my email (r.wobben@home.nl) is mis used.

Don't worry, almost everybody who posts here had their email address
spoofed in spam from some stupid little script-kiddy who thought he
was hot $#!7 for being about as significant as a gnat and for much the
same reason. It's trivial to do (which is why he managed to do it).

-Dave

--
Dave Aronson, freelance software developer (details @ www.Codosaur.us);
see also www.PullRequestRoulette.com, Blog.Codosaur.us, www.Dare2XL.com

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Wasn't there some discussion before about burning the bridge between
the occasionally-spammy web forum and the much-less-spammy email list?

-Dave

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On Sun, Jun 1, 2014 at 8:42 PM, Saji Hameed <saji@u-aizu.ac.jp> wrote:

It may have been trivial, but it was a huge annoyance (a flood of 300+ spam mails to manage).
Hopefully someone can implement a mechanism to prevent this from happening in the future..

--
Dave Aronson, freelance software developer (details @ www.Codosaur.us);
see also www.PullRequestRoulette.com, Blog.Codosaur.us, www.Dare2XL.com