how common is it to get email spam with your first, first and last and/or home town in it?

..

 

(I would suggest copying the subject line in the post, at the
very least.)

Anyway...
"how common is it to get email spam with your first, first and
last and/or home town in it?"

They are getting better and better at their stupid game. But
until your home address and phone number shows up, I wouldn't
worry. Even then, they're just spammers. Ignore them - not that
they will go away.

 

not very, particularly in the MS groups........

 

Always, if you're actually asking a question. That's what it's for. The Subject
line is not.

http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/usenet/dont.html

 

I'd say 100 percent, for those who have any idea what they are doing.

The SUBJECT line is for the SUBJECT, or TOPIC of the message. It is not
a salutation or a summary line, it is not a place for interjections.

The body of the message is for the message itself -- and if that
message is a question, that's where it should always be.

There are MANY good reasons for putting all of that information in the
message -- one of the strongest has to be that subject lines can't be
effectively read if they are long. Some newsreaders just won't show
very much of the subject line.
One of the worst problems when people don't do it properly,
particularly in a group like this one, is that they leave out almost
every necessary detail.

 

Hiya Mara.

Psssst... I'll let you into a secret but you must promise not to tell...

I WAS TAKING THE PISS!

 

Hiya Mitch.

I guess sarcasm isn't expected in here

 

Lookout wrote:

Very common if you signed up with a website with your real name and
private email address. Use a disposable email address for website
signup.

 

Thanks and not me. I told of this problem before. A friend visited a
store site and started getting email from them and she SAYS.....that
she didn't enter any personal information or use a credit card. She's
still getting email from them.

Thanks again.

 

I quite liked your post, but I'm in London not Hawaii...........

 

The bathrooms are down the hall and to the left, then right, then right again,
then up three flights of stairs, then left, then over the hill, take a number,
then past the bear traps, through the flying razor blades, then under the
rainbow to the left, past the continual machine-gunning, then another left.

(The OP is in my bin for trolling, so I didn't see the original.)

 

Hiya Mara.

That explains a few things

 

Hiya Peaches.

You but you're Peaches not Mitch

 

Mara rambled on in 24hoursupport.helpdesk:

You forgot to mention the tiger pit and the chainsaw-wielding maniac.

Thank goodness for Depends....

"I get by with a little help from Depends,
Ooh, I get by with a little help from Depends"

etc., etc.....

snip

 

Common to expect it but silly to think it's going to be there.

 

Obviously just as common as QUOTING then.