Re: Apple2 Ethernet card kits, group buy

["Greg J. Buchner" <buchner@tcfreenet.org>]

On Wed, 19 Jul 2000, Rubywand wrote:

> > So that it's easy to find...                    jojo4@nospam.va.mediaone.net
> 
>      One thing that would help is to just give a for-real email address which
> does not require playing games to decipher. Like, in
> "jojo4@nospam.va.mediaone.net" are we supposed to zap the "nospam." or the
> "nospam.va.". People do not like to send emails unless they are fairly certain
> the address is right.
> 
>      Anyway, it's not like you are going to be mailbombed with spam emails as a
> result of a Csa2 posting. My spam seldom exceeds five or so per day and these
> just get deleted. Guess I'd be a billionaire by now if only all those
> 'opportunities' had not been zapped. (Besides, if I were going to design a spam
> emailer, the first thing my program would ignore is "nospam.". Some emailers
> are certain to have figured this out.)

Plus, spammers aren't going to be searching through the bodies of messages
looking for e-mails.  You'll notice I have two e-mails listed below in my
signature.  The buchner@tcfreenet.org does get spam, but that's because I
use this account to post on occasion.  The gjb@wavetech.net doesn't get
any spam, even though the e-mail address isn't munged in this signature.

I would imagine that most e-mail sucking programs get the e-mails out of
the headers, it'd be much easier and be a lot less data to sift through.

Greg B.

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