Spam from leaked (?) user details

ruby-talk
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I get a disturbing amount of email spam addressed to the email address I
used only to register here - rubfor@etc. How have people got hold of
these details?

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Mike Stephens wrote:

I get a disturbing amount of email spam addressed to the email address I
used only to register here - rubfor@etc. How have people got hold of
these details?

Anyone with usenet access can download your messages from comp.lang.ruby and
read the From-header, which includes your email address.

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Your email is clear text *at least* on usenet.

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-----Original Message-----
From: list-bounce@example.com [mailto:list-bounce@example.com] On
Behalf Of Mike Stephens
Sent: Wednesday, September 19, 2007 8:24 PM
To: ruby-talk ML
Subject: Spam from leaked (?) user details

I get a disturbing amount of email spam addressed to the email address
I
used only to register here - rubfor@etc. How have people got hold of
these details?

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Phillip Gawlowski

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Newsgroups: comp.lang.ruby

I get a disturbing amount of email spam addressed to the email address I
used only to register here - rubfor@etc. How have people got hold of
these details?

See above. In short,

  ruby-talk mailing list <======> usenet comp.lang.ruby
      ^
       \
        \
         > ruby forums

The ruby-forum is a web gateway to the ruby-talk mailing list.
The ruby-talk mailing list is also gatewayed to the
comp.lang.ruby usenet group.

Our email addresses travel far and wide.

Regards,

Bill

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From: "Mike Stephens" <rubfor@recitel.net>
To: "ruby-talk ML" <ruby-talk@ruby-lang.org>