21 Oct
2001
21 Oct
'01
12:03 a.m.
On Oct 20, 21:22, Jay West wrote:
Thanks for your patience & understanding as we
improve our
infrastructure.
This is perhaps an opportune moment to thank you for all the time, effort
and resources you have put into hosting the list and the archive.
Some time ago, there was a discussion about address munging. I've noticed
recently (ie the last few months) a large increase in spam arriving here,
possibly correlated to my postings to the list. It not a really big deal,
but I wondered if it's possible to anti-spamify my email address in list
postings?
We will also be updating the software that
pulls all the classiccmp posts into the archive at www.classiccmp.org
and I think the new version has a search function built in.
That would be nice!
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Pete Peter Turnbull
Network Manager
University of York
21 Oct
21 Oct
2:42 a.m.
Some time ago, there was a discussion about address
munging. I've noticed
recently (ie the last few months) a large increase in spam arriving here,
possibly correlated to my postings to the list. It not a really big deal,
but I wondered if it's possible to anti-spamify my email address in list
postings?
I would also appreciate some sort of address obscuring.
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Cameron Kaiser, Point Loma Nazarene University * ckaiser(a)stockholm.ptloma.edu
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7:10 a.m.
Some time ago, there was a discussion about address
munging. I've noticed
recently (ie the last few months) a large increase in spam arriving here,
possibly correlated to my postings to the list. It not a really big deal,
but I wondered if it's possible to anti-spamify my email address in list
postings?
This fear of spam always amazes me. I sign up at every idiot contest site I
find on the web (I won $3 of gas from Havoline), and I never get more than
half a dozen spam emails a day out of a hundred or so real emails on
important topics like replaceing the cord vs connector. Just hit delete, or
in the case of "real" spam drop the email into one of the antispam sites
and let the software go after the sender.
23 Oct
23 Oct
1:06 a.m.
At 12:10 PM 10/21/01 -0700, Mike Ford wrote:
Perhaps posting to Usenet generates higher levels of spam.
- John
Some time ago,
there was a discussion about address munging. I've noticed
recently (ie the last few months) a large increase in spam arriving here,
This fear
of spam always amazes me. I sign up at every idiot contest site I
find on the web (I won $3 of gas from Havoline), and I never get more than
half a dozen spam emails a day out of a hundred or so real emails on
important topics like replaceing the cord vs connector. 
2:03 a.m.
Perhaps posting to Usenet generates higher levels of
spam.
It's always been my understanding that Usenet is one of the
favorite trolling places for those fishing for email addresses. The
received amount of SPAM for me generally goes up once I've posted
something to Usenet, but it's never been outrageous levels. I post
to Usenet infrequently and in spurts though. I know of some people
that post there regularly that even rotate the email addresses they
use for Usenet postings, disabling an address after a given amount of
time. Of course, all of this is of little good if your main address
appears on one of the many CD compilations of email addresses that
are sold to spammers. They appear on eBay all the time.
Jeff
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