Usenet Posts with Valid Email Addresses
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forums and include what appears to be valid email addresses. I bet
the Spammers are very appreciative ... money in the bank!
st...@tropheus.demon.co.uk
I have used one address on usenet and some email forums for over ten
years. I also have six other e-mail addresses that are redirected to
that main address. Anything that is sent directly to the main address
is filtered out. The result is that I am using a valid address but I
don't get any spam.
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<juergen.nie...@arcor.de> wrote:
>"<----- Which Way ----->" <trax...@msn.com> wrote:
>
>Why? Have you ever considered that those aren't our normal, everyday
>email addresses?
>
>Yes, the mailbox will fill up with junk (though most of it is caught by
>the spamfilters even before reaching the mailbox, and the rest is
>caught after downloading) - so what?
>
>Currently, I get about 100 or so spams per day, but about 1-2 per month
>actually make it onto my PC, and they usually get filtered there by
>Thunderbird. The spams that aren't justify a bit of close attention, if
>only to find out HOW they bypassed the filters :-)
>
>All in all, there's no justification to use fake or invalid email
>adresses anymore. POP3 mailboxes are available for free these days, and
>you MIGHT get a reply to a newsgroup posting that is worth reading.
>Clear out the Usenet mailbox once a week, once a month, just as you
>like - it will train your spam filters, might discover new tricks, and
>might even show you some valid email that you wouldn't have got if you
>used a fake address.
>
>Juergen Nieveler
Points well taken. However, do you think those Users who post "how do
I turn on the computer" kinds of questions understand your responses?
Simply, they do not. I work with 30-40 a day who would not understand
your post. For example, they ask "what is a POP3 ?" How can I filter
an email or a Usenet post? And so it goes.
Dick R.
I think it depends on what services your ISP provides. My ISP has
contracted a 3rd party that filters out virus infected and other
junk mail. I can check to see if any of the filtered junk is
legitimate (usually none), then I can sign onto the server,
check the mail that got thru, and delete anything that I don't
want before I download it to my PC. Works for me, and I'm proud
to say my email address is genuine. :-)
Dick R.
Samantha
"<----- Which Way ----->" <trax...@msn.com> wrote in message
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> It continues to surprise me that so many people post to these public
> forums and include what appears to be valid email addresses. I bet
> the Spammers are very appreciative ... money in the bank!
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I'm sure your right, and there's no way you can determine
if my email is genuine or not until you try it.
But at the end of the day,these newbies will have to learn
what to do just like you and I and heaps of other people did.
That's the way of the World Wide Web.
Sam.......
Jim Higgins
"Samantha" <Sama...@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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My posts on Usenet involve only a blowoff Hotmail email address (which I
check) and never, ever my primary email address.
default
wrote:
Roger that.
There was a time when commercial interests did not dominate the web .
. . Adapt and survive.
Really amazes me - I get rid of AOL. or Earthlink, RR, or Compuserve
with my friends and set them up with a mom/pop ISP, or keep their ISP
and switch their mail progy to Thunderbird, and/or use a drop box, and
no problems . . .
What I don't understand> if you have your reply-to address as a
throw away web account, you are still unlikely to get spammed - even
with the real email address in the header fields. Surely the spammers
and robots are more sophisticated than that?
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Samantha
"Elmer Spudd" <elmer...@ultrafunk.com> wrote in message
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>>
> www
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Oh Really,
How can you send any kind of email without the Web....???
Rick
news:42f97c2c$0$22591$afc3...@news.optusnet.com.au:
> "Elmer Spudd" <elmer...@ultrafunk.com> wrote in message
> news:ggnhf1t0palvnlp41...@4ax.com...
>> On Tue, 9 Aug 2005 23:22:16 +1000, "Samantha" <Sama...@yahoo.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>
>>>That's the way of the World Wide Web.
>>>
>> Unless it's a throwaway webmail account, emails have nothing to do
>> with www
>
> Oh Really,
>
> How can you send any kind of email without the Web....???
ROTFL!
No offense, but are you aware that email and Usenet both predate the
"Web" by many years? The "Web" is not the same thing as the Internet.
I don't use the "Web" to send email. Nor am I using the "Web" to post this
message. I also use one of my regular email addresses in my postings
without bothering to munge it. I do admit to having one simple filter on
this email account though, which has taken care of all of the spam being
sent to it.
Different strokes for different folks. I'd rather have my email address
easily available to anyone who wishes to contact me, without forcing them
to jump through hoops trying to figure out how to properly demunge the
address.
--
Rick Simon rsi...@cris.com
Include "spam(trap)key" somewhere in the
body of any email to avoid spam filters.
Samantha
> No offense, but are you aware that email and Usenet both predate the
> "Web" by many years? The "Web" is not the same thing as the Internet.
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Well Rick, it just goes to show we're not
always as smart as we'd like to be.
I thought that emails were a product of the Internet
which is another word for World Wide Web.
Sam....!!!
Beauregard T. Shagnasty
I smell another <rotfl> coming ... :-)
As Rick said, the "Internet" and the "World Wide Web" are NOT the
same. The WWW is just one part of the Internet.
<http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&q=define%3A+internet&btnG=Search>
<http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=define%3A+world+wide+web&btnG=Google+Search>
Please do not double space your postings... thanks.
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Pastor Dave
Shagnasty" <a.non...@example.invalid> spake thusly:
>Samantha wrote:
>>> Rick Simon ...........said No offense, but are you aware that
>>> email and Usenet both predate the "Web" by many years? The "Web"
>>> is not the same thing as the Internet.
>>
>> . ***********************************************
>>
>> Well Rick, it just goes to show we're not
>>
>> always as smart as we'd like to be.
>>
>> I thought that emails were a product of the Internet
>>
>> which is another word for World Wide Web.
>
>I smell another <rotfl> coming ... :-)
>
>As Rick said, the "Internet" and the "World Wide Web" are NOT the
>same. The WWW is just one part of the Internet.
Best to think of WWW, email, usenet & IRC,
as riding on top of the Internet.
--
Pastor Dave
"If you believe what you like in the Gospel,
and reject what you like - it is not the Gospel
you believe, but yourselves." - St. Augustine
Samantha
"Beauregard T. Shagnasty" <a.non...@example.invalid> wrote in message
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>
> I smell another <rotfl> coming ... :-)
>
> As Rick said, the "Internet" and the "World Wide Web" are NOT the same.
> The WWW is just one part of the Internet.
>
> <http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&q=define%3A+internet&btnG=Search>
> <http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=define%3A+world+wide+web&btnG=Google+Search>
>
> Please do not double space your postings... thanks.
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I wouldn't "rotfl" too often, someone
might prove to you that your not such a smart
arse as you'd like to think you are.
and you can stick your Links and your
''Please do not double space your postings... thanks''......Line
where the sun don't shine too.
Samantha
YoKenny
Kerplinkety plinkety PLONK!
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Beauregard T. Shagnasty
> Samantha typed:
>
>> "Beauregard T. Shagnasty" <a.non...@example.invalid> wrote in
>> message news:WOqKe.6295$rI6....@twister.nyroc.rr.com...
>>
>>> I smell another <rotfl> coming ... :-)
>>>
>>> As Rick said, the "Internet" and the "World Wide Web" are NOT
>>> the same. The WWW is just one part of the Internet.
>>>
>>> <http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&q=define%3A+internet&btnG=Search>
>>>
>>>
> <http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=define%3A+world+wide+web&btnG=Google+S
> earch>
>
>>> Please do not double space your postings... thanks.
>>
>> *****************************************
>>
>> I wouldn't "rotfl" too often, someone
>>
>>
>> arse as you'd like to think you are.
>>
>>
>> and you can stick your Links and your
>>
>> ''Please do not double space your postings... thanks''......Line
>>
>> where the sun don't shine too.
>>
>> Samantha
>
>
> Kerplinkety plinkety PLONK!
Ah, YoKenny, you beat me to it!
Samantha, why do you want to raise the hackles of the people you are
asking for help? This is not normally a good plan. But ... suit
yourself. By the way, it's called "netiquette" and you can google
that one yourself.
Pastor Dave
<Sama...@yahoo.com> spake thusly:
>> Please do not double space your postings... thanks.
>
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>
>I wouldn't "rotfl" too often, someone
>
>might prove to you that your not such a smart
>
>arse as you'd like to think you are.
Or, he is telling you the proper format.
>and you can stick your Links and your
>
>''Please do not double space your postings... thanks''......Line
>
>where the sun don't shine too.
So basically, you're a rude, selfish person.
Goodbye.
Samantha
"Pastor Dave" <news-gr...@nospam-tampa-bay.rr.com> wrote in message
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> On Thu, 11 Aug 2005 09:17:10 +1000, "Samantha"
> So basically, you're a rude, selfish person.
>
> Goodbye.
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Do you "Roll on the floor laughing your head off "at other peoples
expense too Pastor Dave
Samantha
"Far Canal" <m...@privacy.net> wrote in message
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> Samantha wrote
>
>
>>
>> Do you "Roll on the floor laughing your head off "at other peoples
>>
>> expense too Pastor Dave
>>
>
>
>
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and that's the total sum of you contribution
to to this thread, sounds more like an off
topic fart to me.