Thanks MacUpdate, you slimy spammers!

I’ve never liked these folks as they have been stealing (or used to steal) update information directly off VersionTracker. I had posted an update to a program of mine to VersionTracker once and made a spelling error. The same spelling error appeared on MacUpdate pretty quickly. Coincidence? Unlikely. Now the good folks at MacUpdate have decided that they couldn’t make enough money on ad revenue, so they’ve sold their mailing list to spammers. How do I know this? For every different website I visit and give an email address, I create a new email alias in the form of website.com@mydomain.com. From the header of the spam, you can tell where it went and that it came from a spammer:

Received: from transit-r1.garyzoom.com (pptpoe-pool-195-114-8-88.rustel-dsl.com [195.114.8.88]) by linux.gruby.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id kAMDbIFi023692 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT) for ; Wed, 22 Nov 2006 05:37:20 -0800

With a title like “Subject: One free MAC title download: latest Ableton, Adobe, Corel, Extensis , Macromedia for MAC OS X” and coming off a DSL line, you can tell it is spam.