dougs mentioned something along these lines yesterday: I've had some spam that has been sent out from my @livejournal.com messaging address returned, and then forwarded to my usual address.* This indicates that my LJ address is being used to send spam; also, recently in my inbox I've had plenty of spam addressed in a way that indicates it's been sent after some contact with my LJ. So I'm disabling my LJ messaging until it all goes away. As I have no idea how long that will be, if you need to contact me you'll find my details at
this friends-locked post.
* The address that presumably bounced my LJ messaging spam is similar to a bunch of other Japanese addresses which regularly spam my usual address, which then indicates that the spambots responsible are now spamming each other, and hopefully, like me, are also getting rather pissed off about it.