i’ve gotten used to the spams that know my real name:

From: Gene Smith
Subject: Sabrina Downard How are you, Sabrina Downard Your Cr-edit isn’t a issue. If you have Property and
want capital to expend anyway you wish or simply
want to decrease your fees;

and even gotten used to the ones that apparently made up a name for me because i get that not-my-name a lot:

From: Hunter Philips
Subject: Sabrina Brochure Eligible sabrina brochure, I spoke yesterday, After further review of your details our office is glad to
alert you of your approval.

but today, while checking my spam folder, i got some very creepy ones: they list valid, old addresses for me. i got nine of them in the past two days citing my old address on S. Racine, where i lived in 1996-1997, and eight of them citing my old address on N. Hermitage (1997-1999).

that’s just more than a little bit disturbing. i was willing to accept that receiving spam with my real name on it was just part of the hassles of having ever written anything with said real name on usenet, the web, a mailing list, et cetera, but … i don’t make a habit of making my address public. this could be data trolled from domain registration records, wherein i’ve always listed my correct address (uh, except for now … i guess i didn’t get around to updating it when i moved, oops!), or, i suppose, any one of a number of other sources. still, i do not like it, sam i am.