[ale] Warning - spamed on Bellsouth.net

[Klepinger, Aaron]

just an FYI.  i was getting a bunch of spam, too, until Bellsouth introduced
their MailGuard service:

http://home.bellsouth.net/bellsouth/s/s.dll?spage=memberservices/94.htm&only
=y&ck

haven't gotten ANY spam since...

aaron

-----Original Message-----
From: Jim Lynch [mailto:jwl at sgi.com]
To: ale at ale.org
Sent: Tuesday, September 10, 2002 7:45 AM
To: Ale
Subject: [ale] Warning - spamed on Bellsouth.net


A few months back I had to ditch my ISDN and get something else.  Since
AT&T cable service is so horrid, I didn't go that way.  I tried to call
them to talk about it but I was on hold for so long I gave up.  My only
other option was DSL and Mindspring said I couldn't get it in my area. 
Funny, Bell South hooked me up post haste.  Anyway, I kept my mindspring
account (I refuse to call them earthlink, but that's another story)
since it would be too difficult to change email addresses.  It's only
$9.95 a month and I hardly ever dial into them.  

To the purpose of this post.  For the first time, I configured an email
client to check my bellsouth email.  To my amazement I had over 600
emails!  All but 3 or 4 were spam.  The good ones were from Bell South. 
Did I say good?  Perhaps, "not true spam" would be better.

Anyway, how in the hell did all the spammers get my email address?  I've
never used it.  Is Bell South peddling its email list?

Jim.

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