On Mon, 22 Sep 2003 23:12:13 GMT
lefty wrote:

fwiw, people tell me the've seen my fake address in spams, right next
to other folks from a newsgroup. if my address is fake, has never
worked, etc, i'd say it was likely that the lists get processed down
from usenet one way or another.

You're right, some of it is from newsgroups in addition to the address
book mining.