Re: Why Tolerate this Newsgroup?

Chris,

I do not expose my email address because I do not want to use a spam filter.
No matter how good the spam filter, there are times that an important
message will wind up in your bulk or spam email directory and therefore it
is necessary to constantly monitor the spam directory for messages that
should not have been flagged as spam. I have chastised my friends regarding
sending my email address in the "clear" and have taught them to use the BCC
field for all emails that are sent to a list. It is a jungle out there and
it is important to protect your email address.

Best Regards,

-mij



"Chris L Peterson" <clp@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:8i2r61lgl7khtqa8k27honb10is7240qbm@xxxxxxxxxx
> On Mon, 25 Apr 2005 17:08:38 -0700, "Mij Adyaw" <mijadyaw@xxxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
>
>>I advocate posting using a real email address, however I personally
>>would never use a real email address because of all of the software bots
>>that crawl Usenet collecting email addressed to sell to spammers. Many
>>years
>>ago, I posted to this newsgroup using a real email address and within
>>several months my email address was ruined with spam. I was receiving over
>>100 spam emails per day...
>
> I've been posting here since 1997 or so, and every post has contained my
> real email address (the same one all that time). I have a few other
> addresses I use for things that I think might attract spam. I don't see
> any more garbage coming to my main address than to the others. Spam
> filters are good enough to strip away the bulk of the junk and leave a
> manageable (albeit still somewhat annoying) amount.
>
> These days, there are so many ways of harvesting addresses that it
> hardly seems worthwhile to worry about it. If you actually use your
> address, it is only a matter of time before it is harvested (perhaps
> from something as simple as a clueless friend who sends out some stupid
> email joke to everyone in his address book- including you- and doesn't
> know what the BCC field is for).
>
> I have many Internet friends I have met through this group. Personally,
> I don't choose to make it difficult for future ones by using a fake or
> obfuscated address.
>
> _________________________________________________
>
> Chris L Peterson
> Cloudbait Observatory
> http://www.cloudbait.com


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