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Rest in Peace, Nadine

Michael Rathbun recently commented on my old 2007 post linking to his "Story of Nadine" website . He notes, "A while back I located an obituary notice for "Nadine". She still gets between 50 and 200 messages per day, all of which now feed the Spamcop service." Neat. (And sorry to hear about Nadine.) If it were me, I'd probably make it all bounce for about a …
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The Story of "Nadine"

(Note: David Hutchens contacted me today, looking for access to the Story of "Nadine" website. I sent him an email reply, which bounced. Gotta love those aggressive spam filters. I don't know any other way to contact him, so I figured I'd post about it here.)…

Selling your e-mail address for fun and profit

Michael Rathbun runs honet.com, and started noticing lots of attempts to deliver mail to an invalid email address there. Follow the travels of Nadine, as various companies share and spread this address around, with no apparent care for permission or verification. More >&g…