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Old Mar 23, 2007 | 2:16 am
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Aviatrix
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Bigfoot = spam

Originally Posted by Cromely
I have a couple of my own domains now, but a few years ago I signed up with Bigfoot.com. Unlimited use costa about $20/year.
I don't trust Bigfoot.

I signed up with them many years ago, when spam was only a relatively small problem and before spammers started to resort to planting address-harvesting viruses on people's machines (in other words, back in the days when addresses were harvested either manually or by web crawler, and when you were deemed to be safe from spammers unless you put your email address on a web site).

When I signed up with Bigfoot I set up a forwarding address of bigfoot@mydomain.

Within days that address - which had only EVER been given to Bigfoot - started to receive spam.

What's more, all the spam came from the Philippines - where Bigfoot have their head office.

There cannot be the slightest doubt that those spammers obtained my address from Bigfoot, or perhaps a corrupt Bigfoot employee. I complained to Bigfoot but only got boiler plate replies so I gave up on them as a bad job.
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