I believe the reason is that if you look at the homepage for this mailing
list (http://www.alternaterealityarchive.com/) all e-mail addresses of
everyone is visible in plain (unscrambled) format, which is very easy for
e-mail bots (which spammers use) to browse and find.

If you type your e-mail address into Google, I suspect that it will gain a
few hits, and there is your answer.

My suggestion would be to mail Alexander J Rementer
(Listmaster) and ask him to scramble/remove the e-mails from
the site. If he gets a few polite requests, I'm sure he will comply.

/Robert

----- Original Message -----
From: "Kyle West" <barrick75--hotmail.com>
To: <<Address Masked>>
Sent: Thursday, September 25, 2003 4:46 AM
Subject: Re: FW: Amazing secret to picking up women tw


> nope.. I didn't get it. my guess is you probably got hit by one of the
> spammers that tries all possible e-mail addresses in a domain. It's not
> uncommon these days. As a test once, I got an e-mail address, gave the
> address to *absolutely noone* and eventually the spam started pouring in.
>
>
> >From: <AR--ZoomEmail.com>
> >Reply-To: AlternateReality-From-barrick75-hotmail.com--alternaterealityarchive.com
> >To: "Alternate Reality" <<Address Masked>>
> >Subject: FW: Amazing secret to picking up women tw
> >Date: Wed, 24 Sep 2003 22:38:09 -0400
> >
> >What is this crap? Did any of you guys get this SPAM? The ONLY eMail list
> >or
> >person that's EVER gotten this eMail address I'm using (AR--ZoomEmail.com)
> >is
> >the AR Mailing list. Are they selling our addresses?
> >