-> RC> On Aug 04 09:52, 1997, Chris Holten of 1:303/1 wrote:
                                                ^^^^^^^
CH-> RC> I (regularly?) get junk e-mail in my Fido netmail.
  -> RC> Which is interesting, because I have never posted my
  -> RC> Fido address on the I-net.
CH->I never have. Not to say that won't change as all a junkmailer needs to 
o
  ->converted the fidonet nodelist into internet e-mail address and he could 
se
  ->thme as "verified" e-mail address's as they are verified once a week by 
the
  ->NIC.
                                   ^^^^^^^^
What you both fail to realize is that your address has gone out in
*every* message you have written! The spammers just D/L a mail packet
and match the posters name with the FIDO address. It's not rocket
science.
 * OLX 2.1 * Todd Copeland  -  TEAM OS/2
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