[TowerTalk] Fwd: Unwanted crap msgs

[K8RI]

On 3/31/2012 5:24 PM, Al Kozakiewicz wrote:
> Actually, that's not true.  As a subscriber to tower talk, I now know David Gilbert's email address and that towertalk at contesting.com will accept a message purporting to be from him.  Armed with that knowledge and an ISP that doesn't care if I operate an SMTP server, I can send email to everyone who subscribes to this list without ever accessing your computer.  I don't need to have access to your address book, only copies emails you've sent or have been sent to you.  And I can get them legitimately.

And many of us use SMTP servers. I use charter to access the net for 
speed and capacity, but I use a different company for my web server and 
e-mail.  I use different addresses for reflectors, subscriptions, and 
memberships. That lets me keep track of who gets what address.  OTOH 
when your address goes to a reflector any one who knows how (and has the 
capability) can easily use the same address. On the reflectors it's just 
a PITA but it's what they might do with those addresses elsewhere that 
bothers me more.

73

Roger (K8RI)