OT how to avoid spam?
Sonja
fun. The only not so funny thing is that I keep getting the most hideous
spam you can imagine. How can I put a stop to this. If I sound desperate, I
am.
Sonja
--
"Just knock 3 times and whisper low, that you and I were sent by Joe, then
strike a match and then you'll know you're in Hernando's Hideaway..."(The
Johnston Brothers, Snatch)
Mattia Valente
>
> Hi everyone. I've been posting quite a lot on this ng and that's a lot of
> fun. The only not so funny thing is that I keep getting the most hideous
> spam you can imagine. How can I put a stop to this. If I sound desperate, I
> am.
Dunno. The Spam comes and goes, although I wouldn't blame a specific
newsgroup for that. The hassle of spamblockers is more than the
annoyance I get out of SPAM (I've been desensetized, I guess..)
You can just put a 'Spamblock' in your addy, although 'NOSPAM' is
simple, and may be filtered out quite simply. You can also just write
'lo...@sigfor.email' or something in the 'from' field (if your email
client doesn't bitch about it..) and write out your address in full in
your sig. alyson-chello-dot-nl, for example.
I'm not sure all of this is worth it, though. I know some people have
spamblockers in place, but still get spam.
Mattia
--
"My beagle went swimming today and now he's typing on my keyboard with
his ample nose. Oh, and he's the bestest handsomeest beagle EVER."
--Tim Minear, Salon.com, May 2001
Chris
> Hi everyone. I've been posting quite a lot on this ng and that's a lot of
> fun. The only not so funny thing is that I keep getting the most hideous
> spam you can imagine. How can I put a stop to this. If I sound desperate,
I
> am.
so that it looks like the address isn't valid :)
--
Chris
To err is human, but to really foul things up requires a computer.
P@rick
> You can just put a 'Spamblock' in your addy, although 'NOSPAM' is
> simple, and may be filtered out quite simply. You can also just write
> 'lo...@sigfor.email' or something in the 'from' field (if your email
> client doesn't bitch about it..) and write out your address in full in
> your sig. alyson-chello-dot-nl, for example.
Those are all good options. Of course there will be people who just hit
the 'email author' button, get their email returned to them as being
undeliverable and are at a loss what to do about it. Every solution has
its price :)
> I'm not sure all of this is worth it, though. I know some people have
> spamblockers in place, but still get spam.
I certainly don't. I use a not-so-obvious (to a computer anyway)
spamblocker and it works. I also never get email following up on my
usenet posts. Now that's probably because no one bothers ;) but if
someone can't figure out that my email addy is altered then I don't
think I want their emails anyway ;)
Bye, Patrick
Sieue
"P@rick" <pat...@nksf.VampWillow.nl> wrote in message
news:MPG.1674afd8b...@news.xs4all.nl...
Of course some of us have a hotmail account which we use in the reply to
box. Means we still get legitimate emails but the spamfilter on hotmail
catches the really horrible ones.
Sieue