"Rod Speed" wrote in message
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And when I was a teenager, I deliberately misspelled
my name with some of the free trial subs to mags like
Time and Life and that would **** the system.

And my writing is so atrocious that plenty even
manage to **** up my last name, even ending
up with weird variations like Spego once.

Doing that, or even just inventing a variety of different fictitious middle
initials, can be a very good way of identifying where spammers have got your
name from. If you only ever used a middle initial of B with Time, and with
no-one else, any spammers or junk mailers that use it must have got your
details from Time's mailing list.