Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays.

I get very little spam these days, because I create temporary email addresses for each web site I register with, using the excellent services of sneakemail.com. On the few occasions when I get spam, it's usually to my ISP email address, though my present ISP seems to be a lot better about security than was Comcast.

Yesterday I received one of those ridiculous messages from Nigeria, sent to the email address I created for WinCustomize and Stardock. (It amazes me that those letters actually work.)

I'm sure the fine folks at WinCustomize and Stardock are not selling email addresses, so how did the spammer come by this address? The name part of the address is a random series of letters and numbers, so I doubt that it was computer-generated. The only other way I can think is that this site was hacked. (

So... I'll retire the old address and create a new address for this site. I sincerely hope the new one is not misused in the future.

I'm wondering if anyone else here has received one of those emails recently.