How do I block my email from appearing on messages?
I'm getting so much 'bad' mail of late and the only thing I can put it down
to is that my email goes out to newsgroups; no-one else. It would be great to know of ways around this. |
How do I block my email from appearing on messages?
On Fri, 7 Nov 2003 07:50:55 +1000, "paxwax1"
wrote: I'm getting so much 'bad' mail of late and the only thing I can put it down to is that my email goes out to newsgroups; no-one else. It would be great to know of ways around this. Use a false address on newsgroups. Probably too late....you are already on lists. Lists are currency to spammers. Apart from that, the listmakers have bots that make up usernames and marry them to known domains. They send out millions of spam messages in the hope of hitting an occasional real address. I mentioned this one before and an "expert", here, said it wasn't so.....it is! I get many messages per day addressed to all sorts of weird, multiple addresses using my ISP's domain with mine in the middle. Reply to one and you are on a bunch more lists even if they say that you can opt out. Even a tirade of abuse won't get you off. Any response at all confirms you are a live on and worth more to list buyers. Check out MailWasher.....allows you to clean out your mailbox before downloading content. Also allows you to blacklist senders and to create filters. Checking before downloading helps detect unwelcome attachments, too. brianWE Learning. If I hadn't been proven wrong so often, I wouldn't be as smart as I am, now. |
How do I block my email from appearing on messages?
"paxwax1" wrote in message ... I'm getting so much 'bad' mail of late and the only thing I can put it down to is that my email goes out to newsgroups; no-one else. It would be great to know of ways around this. In Outlook under Tools/Accounts/News/Properties you can change your email address to something false, I think it has to still look like to be accepted. Other programs probably have similar facility. |
How do I block my email from appearing on messages?
"paxwax1" wrote in message
... I'm getting so much 'bad' mail of late and the only thing I can put it down to is that my email goes out to newsgroups; no-one else. It would be great to know of ways around this. Go to your news set-up. Change your "reply-to" address to something fictitious in the right format. Like , for example. The problem for you is that the spam-bots have already stripped your address. The number of spammers with your address will now increase exponentially. The only way to fix this is to do what I do. Ask your ISP to change your e-mail address either permanently or temporarily. Send an e-mail to everyone in your address book telling them of your new address. The SPAM will bounce and they will eventually go away. |
How do I block my email from appearing on messages?
In aus.politics brian w edginton wrote:
[...] FYI putting "removethis", "[remove]", "xxx" or using rot-13 in addresses that otherwise matche a known domain or host do not at all fool the tools that bulk gather email addresses from usenet. And in the new era where companies regularly "datamine" the complete 20-y history of USENET and a significant percentage of web pages available are not typically fooled by people trying to hide their identities. |
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How do I block my email from appearing on messages?
Xref: 127.0.0.1 aus.gardens:22562 aus.politics:781595 soc.culture.australian:208338
In soc.culture.australian brian w edginton wrote: [...] That, too. Now, there's an idea.....just about every spam message I get refers me to a website. Why aren't all/some of those brilliant teenage arseholes hacking genuine websites and doing the world a service by crashing the sites the spammers want us to visit? No shortage of them, after all (Spammers and hackers, both) Guerilla warfare, like. [...] Earlier this year I saw something in The Age about some imminent US company-for-hire that was proposing to be contracted to "go on the offensive". The rep seemed to be some IT hawk previously working in the Pentagon -- the only reason my eyes stopped on the article for more than 10 seconds. ;-) I'll dredge it up... |
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In soc.culture.australian wrote: Earlier this year I saw something in The Age about some imminent US company-for-hire that was proposing to be contracted to "go on the offensive". [...] It seems "information warfare" brings up a few hits on the old Guggul. While most see it as a ?bad? thing, there are some people apparently researching the ?positive? side: http://www.iwar.org.uk/ |
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How do I block my email from appearing on messages?
We are on Optus, to block spam, go to your home page, click on webmail,
then fill in sender name and password. A list of E-mails comes up.. You can then block them on the server. Close the mail and no more can come in. We have to do this each time before going on the web, or we get heaps of spam, with attachments of 156 kb daily. Marie "Jade" Jade_at_Jaywings_dot_com wrote in message ... That's a clear, straight forward response... this is a test to see if I got it right. Jade. "jg" wrote in message ... "paxwax1" wrote in message ... I'm getting so much 'bad' mail of late and the only thing I can put it down to is that my email goes out to newsgroups; no-one else. It would be great to know of ways around this. In Outlook under Tools/Accounts/News/Properties you can change your address to something false, I think it has to still look like to be accepted. Other programs probably have similar facility. |
How do I block my email from appearing on messages?
"paxwax1" wrote in message . ..
I'm getting so much 'bad' mail of late and the only thing I can put it down to is that my email goes out to newsgroups; no-one else. It would be great to know of ways around this. If you are posting via Google then I don't think you can hide your email address ( if you know of a way, let me know ) Just set up a free hotmail or yahoo account and use that for posting. I only check mine on an adhoc basis, and yahoo takes care of most of the spam for me anyway... Adam |
How do I block my email from appearing on messages?
On Fri, 07 Nov 2003 07:50:55 +1000, paxwax1 wrote:
I'm getting so much 'bad' mail of late and the only thing I can put it down to is that my email goes out to newsgroups; no-one else. It would be great to know of ways around this. Most of the spamming is done by automated bots. My system seems to illude them....... -- to email me remove the word "NOT" from my addy "..... I think what has kept your country safe and sane, relatively, is that you have an ethic we don't have in America, which is that if one person is hurting, we're all hurting." Michael Moore |
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How do I block my email from appearing on messages?
On Fri, 07 Nov 2003 07:50:55 +1000, paxwax1 wrote:
I'm getting so much 'bad' mail of late and the only thing I can put it down to is that my email goes out to newsgroups; no-one else. It would be great to know of ways around this. If theres one rule of usenet its this: your address *will* get spammed. Usenet and having a website with a publicly viewable address (as opposed to a form contact) are the two certain ways of getting that address out there. Less certain is signing up for forums etc. Most have a privacy policy and the option for your address to be invisible....but even that is not a certainty. I recommend, as Brian has, the use of mailwasher to clean out the junk from the server, so you never have to download it. I also recommend the use of aliases on your email address, and not to use your ISPs email address for snything at all. Get a free yahoo account, then go to http://dea.spamcon.com and start using disposables. shut the disposable down as soon as the spam gets to ridiculous. my own address is fake. apart from the munging, the actual ID doesnt exist and because i have not set up a catchall on my domain, its going to bounce no matter what. Why? I cannot think of a single reason for anyone from usenet to email me privately, when a post on usenet would be adequate. |
How do I block my email from appearing on messages?
OK, this is the method I use to avoid spam from Usenet.
The programs trawling Usenet look for triggers that note the instance of an email address, and as you know, email addresses follow a basic pattern - something like; To trick these programs, we once added a space before and after the @ symbol. Of course, spam harvesters are not smarter than us - but they are certainly doggedly determined to turn a buck, so they defeated this by looking for any string of characters preceding and following the @ symbol. Fine - we will use the phonetic 'at' instead. So if your email address is Then change it to read 'john at someisp dot com dot au' Or even john at someisp dot com dot au The basic idea is to make the address legible to a rational human being, but useless to a bot. To change the newsgroup email details in Outlook Express. Go to.. Tools, then accounts. Click the news tab, then highlight the service you use to access Usenet (newsgroups). It is most likely the same as your isp. Click 'properties', then under 'user information' you will find the 'email' box. The address placed here is the one that everyone will see, humans and bots included. Place your [john at someisp dot com dot au] style address here, then click 'apply' Note however, that nobody from Usenet will be able to personally reply to you by simply clicking on a message of yours. You can alleviate this by putting a small note at the bottom of your posts (Fix return address before replying) or something like that. You could even set that note up as a signature. Of course, this information is most likely well out of date by now, and some wily teenager may well have written a program that circumvents all the tricks I have suggested. But hell, give it a go anyway - It cant hurt. Best, Matthew. "paxwax1" wrote in message ... I'm getting so much 'bad' mail of late and the only thing I can put it down to is that my email goes out to newsgroups; no-one else. It would be great to know of ways around this. |
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