Author: Mike Byrne
Date: 16:38:19 06/19/04
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On June 19, 2004 at 19:17:12, Steve Glanzfeld wrote: >On June 19, 2004 at 14:53:52, Mike Byrne wrote: > >>But once we know someone has a fake e-mail >>address - as in your case , our tolerance for misbehavior goes to zero. > >Whenever I posted a valid email address on a public or semi-public place on the >net, the usual spam & virus terror hit me soon. So I switched to using faked >(antispam) addresses whenever possible. I have no other option, because those >mail attacks can render an important email account completely unuseable. Filters >are no perfect cure, when hundreds of such mails (up to megabytes daily!) flood >an account... > >I was not intending to cause any trouble by doing so. I think people can >communicate with me via the message board anyway, and that should be sufficient. > >Steve You are correct in that there are valid reasons for one to keep their email private in today's age. Like I said, we're not going to go on campaign to root out fake email addresses ( at least I'm not). A user with a fake email address may get different handling if they misbehave since we will have mo means to warn him.
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