On Mon, 11 Mar 2002, David Robb wrote:
On Mon, 11 Mar 2002, Simon Byrnand wrote:
I don't know if anyone else has noticed the same thing, but spam seems to be on a major increase again, that makes last time (a few months ago when I started a thread about it then) seem like nothing by comparison. I've also read a couple of articles in the online press bemoaning the latest resurgence.
I've seen a fairly large amount all with a similar pattern - all claiming to be from [random characters]@yahoo.com.
Interestingly, all of this spam I'm seeing is targetted at addresses which have been harvested from bigfoot.com or from Usenet archives (which is where I'm assuming bigfoot.com got them from also). --David Robb
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