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I figure it would take a mailing list programmer all of about 15 minutes to
code around 80% of he obvious "no spam" email addresses. Wouldn't take more
than a couple of days to write a program to seek and interpret the "no spam"
decoding instructions provided by the posters. Either the mailers are idiots
or the "no spam" stuff must not be very effective. I would never post
anything to Usenet without an email alias for that specific purpose.
Earl
-----Original Message-----
From: Allan Kaminsky <allank@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: Gaius Marius <maximus@xxxxxxxxxxx>; Omega List <omega-list@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thursday, September 10, 1998 6:20 PM
Subject: Re: Off topic: Spammers
>At 06:13 PM 9/10/98 -0400, Gaius Marius wrote:
>>I'm getting spammed almost every day (almost every hour recently) since I
>>got this account (Sept. 1, 1998) by every moron who has some financial
>>interest/trading system/services he wants to sell. All I did was made 2
post
>>to Misc. Invest. Futures within the last 2 weeks.
><snip>
>
>Although I use an unprotected address on controlled lists such as this,
>when posting to a USENET group, my address is modified by including
>*NoSpam* in it. Someone who wishes to Email me directly can do so by a
>simple modification of the address. However, the programs that
>automatically strip the address of all posters to a group don't get a
>usable address.
>
>For more on how to fight the SPAMmer's, see the SPAM-L FAQ at
>
>http://oasis.ot.com/~dmuth/spam-l/
>
>Allan
>
>"Success is simply a matter of luck. Ask any failure." - Earl Wilson
>
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