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Should our email addresses be in the lis-medical archive?
I found Phil Bradley's experiment fascinating, and it certainly seems to explain where a lot of the spammers are obtaining our addresses.  Like Fiona, I am inundated with spam at work, but interestingly not at home (a Freeserve account).  Again, like Fiona, I am registered with several Jiscmail lists, so would be interested in a solution to our e-mail addresses being so publicy available.  Is there a next step? 
 
I have tried setting up my "Junk E-mail" folder in Outlook, but am finding I still have to check every message as it tends to junk quite legitimate e-mails from anyone with a .com e-mail address or those from a work-related Yahoo group I belong to.
 
Thanks for raising this - it's good to know I'm not the only one being offered all sorts of unsavoury treats at work!  A quick straw poll indicated few of my colleagues seem to be quite so inundated.
 
Melanie
 

Melanie Brocklehurst
Senior Information Adviser - Health & Social Care
Learning and Information Services
London South Bank University
250 Southwark Bridge Road
London  SE1 6NJ

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 -----Original Message-----
From: UK medical/ health care library community / information workers [mailto:[log in to unmask]]On Behalf Of Sue Lacey Bryant
Sent: 06 January 2005 19:33
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Subject: SPAM

See Phil Bradley's experiment on SPAM -  http://webmail.mdx.ac.uk/spam/spamex.htm
 
Sue
 
Sue Lacey Bryant  - BA Hons, Dip Lib, MSc, MCLIP
Independent Information Specialist
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From: [log in to unmask] href="mailto:[log in to unmask]">Fiona McLean
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Sent: Thursday, January 06, 2005 6:47 PM
Subject: Should our email addresses be in the lis-medical archive?

I get far more spam than colleagues. My email is in one other place on the web, but mainly in lis-medical (and other) archives, where the message and all its info are included. I’m not sure if it is technically possible, but am wondering if having an archive with messages and names but not email addresses would help?

Do any of you find you get loads of spam (and more than colleagues) which might be due to this?

(PS happy new year!)

Fiona