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Subject: Re: I use this to defend against spam and viruses (o.t.)

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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