Richard Lamb wrote:
guynoir wrote:

Finally, broadcasting your real email address on usenet is an open
invitation for spam. So change your email address now and use a phony
or coded email address like I and many others do. I consider using
Microsoft Outlook an open invitation for viruses, too, but that
opinion was formed several years ago and I'm sure they've improved
their security since then.

I haven't gotten ANY spam in the last two years, and I haven't had a
computer virus ever in the last ten years that I've been online.


Well, I hate sounding like a rube here, guy,
but for the general betterment of all mankind,
I'll bite...

I can mangle my address. Make it Xcavelamb@somesuch.
But then it's a non working address, unless corrected.
Confuses the hell outta my Mom. (?)

YOURS, on the other hand, seems to work properly.
At least it didn't bounce as returned mail.

So, guy, what's the trick?

How do you pull that rabbit out of that hat?


Richard?

Richard,

You are broadcasting your email address across the internet for any
spambot to collect. Usenet is the most fertile ground for spambots to
find unguarded email addresses like yours. If your email address is
listed on somebody's web page, that's another resource for a spambot to
harvest.

Look at how Orval Fairbairn and Richard Riley cypher their email
addressses. Theirs are done correctly. I'm sorry that my email address
_seems_ to work properly for you. That's because my cyphered email
address was done incorrectly (I've changed it). Read why he

http://www.turnstep.com/Spambot/avoidance.html#NOT

I'm not an internet security expert. All I know is: I haven't had any
spam since I started cyphering my email address. I don't do anything
else to filter out spam. Anybody with a high enough IQ can send me an
email and I will get it.

When I send personal emails, I don't cypher my email address, and my
email program knows automatically whether to use the cyphered or
uncyphered version.



--
John Kimmel


Sometimes Pascal seemed to have had a bandage over his eyes.