New email address

Hi fred,

address could you at least use an invalid domain
name, or one of the domain names reserved for
testing?


I now use an invalid domain, I cheked to make sure that it was invalid. Now
I find that some twit has registered the domain so I've had to change to
another invalid domain. I've used for the last couple of
years.:-) some one has now registered null.net. I used to use test.com and
testtest.com for testing, I now find those are registered, can't think of
the company name but it no longer replies, perhaps uld was different it's
been several years since I've had to send a test mail, if I send one now I
just use the address I have on another domain.

Just think of all the bandwidth the spammers clog up
while sending you email (that you don't "see") and your

But at least I don't see it.:-)
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Cheers,
Model Flyer
MS880B EI-BFR

host's SMTP server bouncing it back if you post a
false email address using a REAL domain name
like hotmail.com. It just slows down the internet
for everybody.

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FF

Morgans wrote:

"Jerry Springer" wrote As of the 25th of May I will
be using




Just curious, but why do you post the real thing here, for spam bots to
harvest?


I have never been a paranoid computer user. I sure I have not been
online as long as some here but I have not had a problem since the days
of using my first suitcase size portable computer which was an old
CPM Osborne.

On Wed, 24 May 2006 12:34:40 GMT, Jerry Springer
wrote:

Morgans wrote:

"Jerry Springer" wrote As of the 25th of May I will
be using




Just curious, but why do you post the real thing here, for spam bots to
harvest?


I have never been a paranoid computer user. I sure I have not been
online as long as some here but I have not had a problem since the days
of using my first suitcase size portable computer which was an old
CPM Osborne.

Jerry, you really are old! :-))

I think that Osborne is the reason I have back problems. At least I
never had to take it on the airlines.

Roger Halstead (K8RI & ARRL life member)
(N833R, S# CD-2 Worlds oldest Debonair)
www.rogerhalstead.com

Roger Halstead wrote:

Jerry Springer wrote:
my first suitcase size portable computer which was an old CPM Osborne.


Jerry, you really are old! :-))


If Jerry is old then you are ancient Roger :-)


- John (had a KayPro Luggable CP/M computer once) Ousterhout -

On Fri, 26 May 2006 14:16:00 GMT, John Ousterhout
wrote:

Roger Halstead wrote:

Jerry Springer wrote:
my first suitcase size portable computer which was an old CPM Osborne.


Jerry, you really are old! :-))


If Jerry is old then you are ancient Roger :-)

When I talk about ancient history my kids used to think it was a first
hand account. Some of it was.

Roger Halstead (K8RI & ARRL life member)
(N833R, S# CD-2 Worlds oldest Debonair)
www.rogerhalstead.com

- John (had a KayPro Luggable CP/M computer once) Ousterhout -

Morgans wrote:
"Jerry Springer" wrote As of the 25th of May I will
be using



Just curious, but why do you post the real thing here, for spam bots to
harvest?

It has been observed that spammers generally harvest from the headers
rather than from the body of Usenet traffic. That said, a fair number
of
Usenet newsgroups are gated to webpages.

Regardless, I use a proper email address in the headers of my Usenet
articles because doing otherwise breaks an important useful feature
of NNTP.

What gound I do yield to spammers I yield grudgingly and never without
a fight.

I would guess that the number of spammers who have lost accounts
because of the complaints I have sent could be counted on my fingers
and toes. But that number is greater than zero.

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FF

Just curious, but why do you post the real thing here, for spam bots to
harvest?

It has been observed that spammers generally harvest from the headers
rather than from the body of Usenet traffic. That said, a fair number
of
Usenet newsgroups are gated to webpages.

Regardless, I use a proper email address in the headers of my Usenet
articles because doing otherwise breaks an important useful feature
of NNTP.

I used to do that, I looked at any message as useful communication. Then the
spam got to be a little excessive, it got to the stage where I was deleting
over 99% of messages, so I changed my email address. About three months
later I checked my old address and found over 120 thousand messages, all
spam except for about 100 that were genuine. Went back to using that address
as my ISP has installed anti spam software, but I still don't use my real
address in the reply address option box.

If somebody want's to send me a "private" e-mail, I'll send them my address.
It's so easy to harvest addresses that it's foolhardy to leave oneself
exposed like that.
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Cheers,
Model Flyer


What gound I do yield to spammers I yield grudgingly and never without
a fight.

I would guess that the number of spammers who have lost accounts
because of the complaints I have sent could be counted on my fingers
and toes. But that number is greater than zero.

--

FF

Modelflyer wrote:
Just curious, but why do you post the real thing here, for spam bots to
harvest?

It has been observed that spammers generally harvest from the headers
rather than from the body of Usenet traffic. That said, a fair number
of
Usenet newsgroups are gated to webpages.

Regardless, I use a proper email address in the headers of my Usenet
articles because doing otherwise breaks an important useful feature
of NNTP.


I used to do that, I looked at any message as useful communication. Then the
spam got to be a little excessive, it got to the stage where I was deleting
over 99% of messages, so I changed my email address. About three months
later I checked my old address and found over 120 thousand messages, all
spam except for about 100 that were genuine. Went back to using that address
as my ISP has installed anti spam software, but I still don't use my real
address in the reply address option box.

If somebody want's to send me a "private" e-mail, I'll send them my address.
It's so easy to harvest addresses that it's foolhardy to leave oneself
exposed like that.

Foolhardy? nonsense, just because you do not know how to manage your
email program.
If you send your email address to someone you are just as likly to get
spammed from that as you are anywhere else. Anyone that puts your email
address in their address folder is setting you up for virus' and spam.

Jerry (not afraid of spammers or virus or to use my real email address)

Jerry Springer wrote:
...
If you send your email address to someone you are just as likly to get
spammed from that as you are anywhere else. Anyone that puts your email
address in their address folder is setting you up for virus' and spam.

...

Nonsense.

That's like saying tha tyou are as likely to crash flying in clear,
windless weather at noon as you are flying through the eye of a
tornado. While it is posible to crash either way the latter is
a certainty.

Either way

An email address on someone's PC might be compromised but one that
is posted in UseNet headers is certain to be harvested repeatedly.

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FF

It's so easy to harvest addresses that it's foolhardy to leave oneself
exposed like that.

Foolhardy? nonsense, just because you do not know how to manage your email
program.

Perhaps Jerry, you would care to enlighten me, tell me how to set-up Outlook
Express to prevent spam. My ISP now provides an anti spam service, but I
don't see any function within OE to effectivly block spam.
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Cheers,
Model Flyer
MS880B EI-BFR

If you send your email address to someone you are just as likly to get
spammed from that as you are anywhere else. Anyone that puts your email
address in their address folder is setting you up for virus' and spam.

Jerry (not afraid of spammers or virus or to use my real email address)