Re: [OT] Massive spam increase recently?

["Graham Howe" <graham@xxxxxxx>]

--- In ukha_d@xxxxxxx, Stuart Poulton <stuart.poulton@a...>
wrote:
> To highlight the problem, a simple search using google for
>
> graham@s... will give you an idea of where you e-mail address
> can be obtained from. Also "unsbuscribing" from spam is one
of the
worst
> things you can do, it just confirms that the e-mail is indeed
active.
>

I am actually quite careful about putting my real email address into
web pages and infact to my knowledge all the pages I have designed
have info at solarfish dot com, not graham at....

However I did just search google for graham at.... and found 29
pages. All of the pages are either on Marks site (news items I have
submitted or responded to), the ukha_d archives (I thought these were
protected) or the Ace mailing list.

Now I suspected that this search had not picked up everything so I
searched for info at.... and it came back with no results at all. So
it seems that google is not returning results where the search string
is in the meta tags.

So the question is how do I search for text in meta tags across the
net to identify where else the robots might be getting my information?

I also saw that my email address came up on lots of pages for google
groups, there is little I can do about that as I used to disclose my
address through newsgroups but don't anymore.