[patrickp]

Originally Posted by nedsram

I took the trouble to post details of what is in my view a serious violation of email rules, as well as an apparent security breach. I also published the headers in the hope that it would help somebody to track down the source of these messages. In return I get flamed.

For your information, the email address I obfuscated wasn't mine - I was in the bcc list. As for the other email address you mentioned, I can assure you that it is genuine. Have you perhaps considered that the owner may have had her PC infiltrated, and is unaware of this?

I won't be reading - or contributing to - this thread again. Thanks to everybody else for the useful discussions.

Brian

My point about the email address was, I thought, quite obvious - not that you shouldn't have obscured it, but to ask again, if not directly, why you found it necessary to post someone's (who was clearly _not_ the author of the spam email) email address in full in a public forum.

If you want to complain about receiving spam, fine. If you want to post about ntl selling on email addresses, I think you're wrong, but but I have no problems with you arguing the point. But posting people's email addresses in a public forum is _not_ acceptable behaviour for me, and I have to say that I think the less of you for throwing a temper tantrum rather than simply taking it on board and refraining from doing it again. I had pointed out to you once before that this is not an appropriate thing to post.