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guynoir wrote:
Richard 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. ? |
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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? |
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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. |
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guynoir wrote:
Richard Lamb wrote: guynoir wrote: 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. Let's see if this is better? Xearthlink does not seem to exist (per instructions) Richard |
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Richard Lamb wrote:
Let's see if this is better? Xearthlink does not seem to exist (per instructions) Richard but any embedded spaces seem to cause smtp to burp ??? |
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First, go to:
https://www.grc.com/x/ne.dll?bh0bkyd2 John, for more security information go to www.grc.com/securitynow.htm There are program transcripts and audio downloads for 24 programs. You will learn things that you have been previously taught that are wrong. |
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