Security thoughts first thing in the morning

[dsrtao]

I wonder if anyone googles for vacation messages on mailing lists and sells the results to thieves? Having a name and an email address is likely to get you a physical address, and burglarizing an empty house must have a much higher success rate than otherwise.

I never use vacation messages except in a strictly work context, and work email isn't subscribed to any mailing lists outside the company's firewall...

Comments

[cellio]

That's one of two reasons that I don't set vacation notices for my personal email. The other is that it's rude to spam an entire mailing list with the fact that one subscriber most people have never heard of is on vacation.

(Work is different, and like you, I don't subscribe to lists there.)