Someone is using my email address to spam

[Collins Richey]

On 11/30/05, Kurt Wall <kwall at kurtwerks.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 28, 2005 at 07:20:25PM -0700, Collins Richey took 18 lines to write:
> > Or, just punt. Get a gmail account. They do a superb job of filtering
> > out spam and, I presume, the viruses as well.
>
> I just loathe "punting," though. It is as if I'm being driven from the
> Internet by lowlives, and I refuse to be so driven.
>
> Grmph.
>

I understand.

In my case the only thing I'm being "driven from" is the PITA of
maintaining my own mail system and making that available again when I
change distros. Since my switchover, a couple of years ago, I only get
about 10 pieces of spam a day plus the one or two a week that slip
through the Gmail filters and have to be marked by hand. Since they
all wind up in a spam folder, it only takes two mouse strokes to whack
'em all.

And, of course, since I run Linux, I wouldn't recognize a virus if it
bit me in the rear.

It's Windows crap that is drving us from the internet, if anything is.

--
Collins Richey
      Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code ... If you write
      the code as cleverly as possible, you are, by definition, not
      smart enough to debug it.
             -Brian Kernighan