Mike Lyle wrote:
Rupert wrote:
"Sacha" wrote in message
.uk...
Today, I have received around 80 pieces of junk mail. My junk mail
filter catches most of it very well but I still have to check it, of
course. Most
days, the number is something between 30 and 50. Is this because
Gardenbanter is reproducing posts from urg or is there some other
explanation? I'd be grateful to know of the experiences and
opinions of others on urg.

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Sacha
www.hillhousenursery.co.uk
South Devon
(remove the weeds to email me)

No I do not think it's really anything to specifically do with GB.
Harvesting tools have become more efficient at stripping out the anti
spam bits from email addresses.
It's much more likely that a legitimate user of your email addy has
passed it on to someone else who has passed it on etc etc. I can
assure you that even the most (reputable ?)Companies do sell and
cross swap lists. Banks, Building Societies, Solicitors and your ISP.

I get much more spam than you. Usually people are offering me P
enlargement. I wouldn't mind too much but these emails are usually
followed by offers of Viagra which I assume is needed to make the new
thingy function. :-)

I get surprisingly little spam: Y mail filters out all but, at the
most, three or four a day, while Hditto seems to send absolutely all
spam to the junk folder (Only family know that address; but the uk Y
one has been advertised either in clear or in mildly munged form on
Usenet for years. My Australian y seems wholly immune.). I don't
think I've ever received a single spam via my am* o* li** address. A
thing to watch with Hot is that it may junk a legit message, so I
have to remember to check the junk folder from time to time in case
there's one from a daughter at work.

The things to do before anything else seem to be a) mung the address
you give for Usenet, with an explanation in the sig if necessary, and
b) tell all friends and family, on pain of a lingering death or no
Christmas present, not to send any of those usually feeble jokes
unless all the recipients' addresses are in the bcc window. As my
ex-wife once wisely said, "Friends of friends are a worry; friends of
friends of friends are on the run from the police".

Is there any particular reason why half of this post is in some form of
code?...spambots don't harvest from the body of the mail, so you can
actually type 'yahoo, hotmail and americaonline' without fear, in any case,
it's the bit before the ISP that is important, and even then it's only
harvested from the headers.

To the OP, as you are easily contactable via your website I'd use a
completely fictitious address for usenet, you're welcome to use mine,
seeing as it's also in use (or has been in the
past) by about thirty others, or the generic