What happens is that SPAMers sign up for lists. Then when you send an email to the list, they get your email address from the "From" field of the message you sent. Once they hav you email address, it is traded and sold amongst the SPAMers.
The same happens when a friend of yours forwards something you sent, to a group, without first removing the prior headers. Any SPAMer that signed up for the list will get all the email addresses in the history of the message.
My least favrite is the "Send this message to everyone you know and some kid will get a new liver" type BS. Most of those have hidden macros in them so that when they hit an exchnge server, they send an email to the originator with all the email addresses the message has been forwarded to and from.
Also, many of the "send an e-greeting-card" and "tell a friend about this site" sites sell the addresses to SPAMers.
These are just a couple of the more common ways SPAMers get email addresses. Once they have your address, droping your name from the mailing list won't help a bit.
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\Mr Brunet;
My original message was from months ago, when I first signed on to
this list. I got spam mail in droves inviting me to join this or that
pornographic site. As this was the only group I had joined it was
obvious that my subscribing to this site at that time put me on some
kind of spam master list. I have children who also check emails on my
email account and did not want them exposed to such trash. As such I
tried to unsubscribe; unsuccessfully and so sent the message to get
me off the list. The spam promptly stopped when that was done. Later
when talking to a fellow gamer with more internet saavy he explained
to me how I could filter what came to me if I wanted to be able to
use this board. I resubscribed using his advice and have not had the
problem again. This thread was in response to lil devil, not to the
majority of the subscribers on this board who I am sure are great
people, my point was that my request to get off the board back
whenever it was did not involve lil devil or anyone else and required
no snide comments from anyone, and surely did not need any insults
such as being called a dick by someone who hasn't an idea of who I am
or what I am about. Thanks for you comments though.Regards
Brad Jenison
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