I just received some spam at blakem-monk@blakem.com. The only place I've ever used that address is in the html comments of my home node to be included in jcwren's stats page. This isn't a big deal for me, since I can just dump that address to /dev/null and create a new one (blakem-somethingelse@......)

I really just wanted to send a heads up letting people know that such email addresses might bave been slurped up by a spammer.

If anyone is interested, the headers for the spam were: 

Delivered-To: blakem-monk@blakem.com
To: <Mainly Millionaires>
From: "Term Life Insurance Companies of America." <VCTHstock@excite.co
+m>        
Subject: (OTCBB:VCTH) Delivering direct to Disney and United Airlines.
+ USRN
Date: Tue, 14 May 2002 23:42:50 -1700
Reply-To: VCTHstock@excite.com

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-Blake

In reply to Spam sent to perlmonks email address by blakem

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