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MJC wrote:
I appreciate your willingness to be upfront with your name and email address, but that's exactly what you DON'T want to do if you intend to keep your personal email account under control. The address you use publicly doesn't have to be the one you give to friends and family. I'm allowed as many as eight mailboxes for no extra charge, so I've set up a private address, a business address (for eBay etc.) and a public address. The last one is the most vulnerable, so I use my ISP's web interface to clear junk from the mailbox. That way wormy emails never get into my computer. (About every half the messages seem to be bogus Microsoft "updates".) For about three months I've been using that address for all my Usenet postings. It averages only about two spams per day, and I'm running unfiltered. If the spam gets too heavy I can just change the address. No need to inform anyone since the only legitimate traffic is the rare private reply to something I've posted. If you continue to use your correct email address in your newsgroup activities, a combination of weirdo's, email harvesting robots, and just plain jerks are going to continue to send you unwanted email to your personal account. If someone wants to respond to a message you left in the newsgroup, then they need to respond to you here as well. I can't recall ever getting email from a weirdo or jerk. There are some good reasons for sending private replies. I've gotten "attaboys" from readers who thought I'd put up a particularly informative post. That's the right way to do it; complimenting someone in the thread just clutters it up without advancing the discussion. One guy sent the coordinates for his property corners so I could help him figure out the land surveyor's figures. You wouldn't want to broadcast something like that. Another time in a newsgroup thread I mentioned a deficiency in a U.S. government web site. Somebody in that organization was lurking, because a couple days later I received an email from one of their chief scientists, thanking me for spotting this problem. They had taken care of it. I'm not sure what amazed me more, this honcho taking time to thank me, or a government agency clearing up a problem that fast. -- Paul Hirose |
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