rty opened this issue on Feb 16, 2007 · 130 posts
gillbrooks posted Sun, 18 February 2007 at 10:39 AM
Quote - Ok, so maybe a rephrase?
You come in, your title says that you suspect rendo was hacked. People pointed out that it has nothing to do with rendo, and that it's general, every day spam.
So....what is the answer you're looking for? Maybe, if we knew that, we'd be closer to your answer. But, like most of us have said, it's spam. You can either dwell on it, and eventually (if you don't already) need medicine for stress and/or blood pressure, or, you can delete it, and get on with your day. It's an annoyance. But, freaking out about it, as if Rendo has any way to combat spam on a global level, is like using a 9mm to get rid of flies.
No one is 'freaking out about it' except you.
What the majority here don't seem to understand it is that an email account that under no circumstances should be available for 'harvesting' is receiving spam. THAT is the issue.
I have been using the same email account here for some years and until 2 days ago had never had anything come into it other than ebots and newsletters, plus the odd mail from vendors using the 'mail all buyers' option.
I know which of my accounts to expect it on - and with some getting hundreds PER DAY I am used to dealing with it.
Gill