[nzlug] OT: getting joe-jobbed by spammer

[Mark Foster]

>>  Email addresses spread. Say she emails three or four people on one
>>  email. That's three or four people who know her address. If one or more
>>  of those include your wife's email address when emailing their friends,
>>  so it spreads.
>
> It is for this reason that I trained some of my rellies to use the bcc
> field when forwarding those inane emails that some people feel the
> need to forward.
>

Wildly off-topic, but +1000 to this.  People who insist on actually 
forwarding alot of that junk lose points big time for doing so.  Some are 
genuinely interesting or relevant, though, so the follow-up is, unless 
everyone on the recipient list knows everyone else on the recipient list, 
BCC is a must.

Even in the case that all recipients know eachother (avoiding any privacy 
concerns), BCC should be considered for any traffic that isn't likely to 
require a full or partial 'Reply-All'.

Mark.

PS: Most of the email accounts ive had to write off due to spam volume 
have been the ones that've somehow wound up on the web, or have been 
'sold' by online websites that've been proven less than reputable.