The spammers have Bots that scour these groups harvesting emails like
yours. It may be too late now, but in the future, disguise the email
address like most of us have done... for example,
(e-mail address removed) then real people can still use it if they
need to...
Dave
It's been well known for years now that posting/publishing a real
email address to _any_ newsgroup or web site is an open initiation to
be spammed. For years now, spammers have been using automated tools
to harvest email addresses from Usenet. What I don't understand is
why you're just now noticing the phenomenon.
You're receiving these emails because your email address is in
the address book of someone infected with a worm, and/or because _you_
posted your real email address somewhere on-line, either in a forum
accessible to the public and spambots, such as Usenet, or on an
untrustworthy web site that subsequently sold your address as part of
a mailing list.
Bruce Chambers
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