[Arm-netbook] PengPod spam based on this list?

[luke.leighton]

On Thu, Sep 12, 2013 at 3:09 PM, Scott Sullivan <scott at ss.org> wrote:
> On 09/12/2013 08:32 AM, Philip Hands wrote:
>>
>> Lauri Kasanen <cand at gmx.com> writes:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I got an ad email for the PengPod indiegogo campaign. I've never been
>>> involved with them in any way, the closest is this ML.
>>>
>>> Has the subscriber list been given to them for advertising purposes? If
>>> not, perhaps they just crawled the archives...
>>
>>
>> I just searched my mailstore, and the only messages mentioning 'PengPod'
>> or 'pengpod' that I have received were via this list, so I would be very
>> surprised if this list is the source for your address (since if it were,
>> I'd have got the message you're on about, and I did not).
>>
>> Cheers, Phil.
>
>
> I'm going to add my NACK here. I did _not_ receive one of these advert
> emails.

 right, i've heard from neal he's going to do an explanation shortly.

>
> What I have been receiving is a lot of Chinese supplier spam which likely
> scraped my address from the website pre-orders. But that's expect since I
> chose not to obfuscate my email address.

*sigh* i rely on gmail... that's gotta change...