Re: First spam

[Santiago Vila <sanvila@unex.es>]

On Sat, 9 Oct 2004, Andre Majorel wrote:

> First use of email address:           2004-10-06 18:56 (UTC)
> First spam received at email address: 2004-10-09 17:12 (UTC)
>
> If you've been wondering how long it takes for an email address to
> propagate from the Debian list archives to spammers, here's one
> data point: less than 71 hours.

You know, this is part of our "privacy policy" for the mailing lists:

"We do not sell email addresses, we give them for free"

This is of course not written anywhere but it's sadly true.