Klarinet Archive - Posting 000284.txt from 2003/05

From: Erik Tkal <bbtkal@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] Woodwind & Brasswind Paris
Date: Thu, 15 May 2003 12:01:16 -0400

I haven't seen any actual spam yet, but shortly after subscribing to the board I received a virus email (w/ play.exe). The email address I use for this was created just for this board and I have not used it elsewhere, yet somehow someone managed to get it...

Erik Tkal

At 11:31 AM 5/15/2003 -0400, you wrote:
>I don't know if The Woodwind & Brasswind Paris has any relationship to the
>Woodwind & Brasswind in the US, but be aware that The Woodwind & Brasswind
>Paris has been going out and grabbing email addresses from Web pages to
>send Spam (Unsolicited Commercial Email). The Klarinet archives and such
>have masked your email addresses, but I see that other addresses are being
>"scraped".
>
>I have now received over 20 spam messages from the Woodwind & Brasswind
>Paris operation.
>
>The Reply-To: address box is full for the Spam mail. I am forwarding this
>note to the contact listed on the domain record. Perhaps the Woodwind &
>Brasswind Paris operation will understand that we're a little more
>discriminating than the average person when it comes to Spam.
>
>Mark C.

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