Sheeeeeeeesh Carol spare all of us that know yu so well all the crap
your trying to peddle. Your the reason folks need to munge emails.
On Mon, 11 Dec 2006 22:20:21 -0600, Zëbulon
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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.
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http://tinyurl.com/9do58
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