[plug] Within minutes of posting to this list

[Bernd Felsche]

On Saturday 20 March 2004 19:01, Craig Ringer wrote:

> Could it just be chance? I know that for me, 4 spam within a minute is
> slightly odd, but still far too common.

I'm given to understand that a number of spammers are now using
worms to collect email addresses, instead of simply using them to
propagate the worm.

If your email address appears in anybody's "address book", it's
likely to be spammed, and not just from a bot that's taken over one
machine.

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