List Phishing of e-mails from nanog

Wed Aug 31 07:44:58 UTC 2005

Steve Brown wrote:
> Sweet, got my first piece of phishing SPAM (to the address I use for 
> this list) shortly after posting a couple of days ago.

That's probably because the nanog list is gatewayed to a newsgroup. 
Your posting address (and everyone else's posting address) has been 
exposed to a news-trawling spider:

<http://groups.google.com/groups?q=nanog%40stellablue.org>

There's a reason I'm now using dated usernames for my mailing list 
subscriptions.  Between lists that leak addresses onto the web and news 
servers, and other subscribers who get viruses and trojans on their 
computer, there's simply no way to keep an email address out of the 
hands of spammers anymore.

jc