Ryan Ginstrom wrote:
> "Matthew Endo" <matt@gol.com> wrote in message
>
>>I'm thinking about changing to a different posting e-mail address,
>>something like fjlij@validdomain.com to see how much spam it actually
>>generates by posting in the clear and open.
>
>
> I'm sure the fact that this is fj is shielding us a bit.
>
> A couple months back, I stupidly added my email sig to a newsgroup post in
> this group - with phone numbers and emails. Luckily it was just before I
> moved, and my local ISP was bought out by ODN, so the only info in the sig
> that didn't change was my gol account.
>
> However, I received very little spam on my gol after that.
>
> Then a little while ago, I posted my email address in the clear on an alt
> group. Literally within minutes, I got my first virus laden MS patch. Since
> then I've gotten about 2-5 virus emails per day, and 5-10 spams. Not
> unmanageable, but the speed of the response was surprising.

Not quite on topic, but I started my ftp server for a quick local
transfer, and seven minutes later someone tried to log in anonymously. I
guess some people have nothing better to do but run port scans all day,
but still...

Dan