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Zëbulon wrote:
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I would consider munging the email address a form of editing and am,
therefore, personally opposed to the idea,subject to persuasion. My 2¢
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Your mind will change rapidly if a few trolls used it to impersonate you
on groups you don't even know exist - plus use them everywhere so you're
picked up by every addy-combing bot out there. You suddenly find your
inbox is maxed out with spam, threats, barely coherent obscene messages
and such trash. ;-) I had to change mine twice, so now I keep it
private.
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Well, you chose to bring yourself to my doorstep with this reply. I'm not
as paranoid as you.
One becomes a bit paranoid when constantly harassed by trolls who use their
e-mail address to harass them further. Why give them access to it at all
since it's not necessary?
I've had the same e-mail addy since I first went
online, I don't know how many years ago.
Yes, I had the same one for 8 years until the trolls used it to impersonate
me and the spam became more than I wanted to delete several times a day.
Now I get no threats, no one is impersonating me using my e-mail address and
spam is minimal.
I'm on some pretty rough NGs,
including moderated ones that won't accept my munged e-mail addy (q.v.).
I've gotten my share of the types of junk you describe. My SPAM filter
gets
most of it,
OE has a lousy spam-filter as I'm sure you know. Also, the spammers change
their addresses and other info daily so that was useless.
I add others to my Junk folder for filtering as needed. We each
make our own bed and have to lie in it. Like Karma!
BTW I have enjoyed many of your on-topic posts and look forward to more in
r.p.m.
Thank you! I really look forward to posting and reading about ponds and
fish in peace again.
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ZB....
Frugal ponding since 1995.
rec.ponder since late 1996.
My Pond & Aquarium Pages:
http://tinyurl.com/9do58
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