Author: Roy Eassa
Date: 15:10:44 02/06/02
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On February 06, 2002 at 17:35:44, Dann Corbit wrote: >On February 06, 2002 at 15:48:28, Sune Fischer wrote: >[snip] >>My advice is to you is _never_ to register or display in any way your email to >>the public in any kind of forum. AFAIK the spammers have scanners that search >>through these sites for email adresses automaticly. I guess if they collect >>enough they can sell them to advertizing companies or something. >>Get a free junkmail account at yahoo or hotmail and use it for places like this, >>should something happen you can always replace it in two minutes. >>Only give your true adress to a select few. >>I trust the majority of people here, but there is always the occasional troll. > >I post on BBS groups and many boards with my real email alias. >I have a nice spam filter that sends the thousands of spam mails straight to the >toilet. They are deleted automatically so I don't even have to read them. > I use my real e-mail address too (and I should probably know better, having been on the 'net since '91). Dann, what spam filter do you use? (If I may ask...) >Also, I live in the state of Washington, and they have strict anti-spam laws. I >am registered with the state as well, as a person who does not want to receive >spam. > >When something gets through my spam filter, it takes just a few seconds to write >my own filter. > >In short, I don't worry about it.
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