[Coco] Hello All

[David Gacke]

Hi Ken,

You can mangle your address when you set up the newsgroup reader on
outlook express.

I usually set my email address to removethis.dgacke at ektarion.com

And people usually figure out to take out the removethis part if they
need to legitimately reach me.

You can also make up something completely bogus for an address as well.
This helps to hide you from the spambots.


Dave

-----Original Message-----
From: coco-bounces at maltedmedia.com [mailto:coco-bounces at maltedmedia.com]
On Behalf Of Kenneth Schunk
Sent: Saturday, May 29, 2004 8:00 AM
To: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts
Subject: Re: [Coco] Hello All

Stephen:

The main problem I see with posting from the group to usenet that is 
the presence of my e-mail address in anything I post. Once upon a time 
it was fine to post to usenet with a real e-mail address, but these 
days any address I use that is posted there quickly turns into a spam 
collector. I can use my real address here knowing that it's unlikely to 
be harvested by a robot someplace and added to a spam list.

Ken

And I must say that it's unlikely that Windows XP service pack whatever 
will change the way I use the internet, since I'm using Mac OS-X. Then 
again it might - perhaps it will stop some of the script kiddie 
attempts on my firewall!

On May 29, 2004, at 2:38 AM, Stephen H. Fischer wrote:

> Hi,
>
> If someone is using Outlook Express and there is a very good chance 
> that
> they are as OE is the most used news reader.
>
> That their ISP is Earthlink's is also a very good conclusion as it has

> so
> many subscribers.
>
> When persons click on "Newsgroups" in OE they get a huge list of 
> newsgroups.
> Overwhelming them for sure as the count was 29, 232 the last time I 
> checked.
>
> They may search for keywords or just scroll down the list looking for 
> hints
> of something they might want to read.
>
> When they find a newsgroups that might be perhaps interesting, they
can
> click on subscribe (Only internally in OE), click go to and then 
> download a
> few headers and assuming that they are connected to the Internet read 
> the
> message bodies by just clicking.
>
> If they determine that they are not interested, they just UnSubscribe 
> (Only
> internally in OE),  and go back to the Newsgroups list and look for 
> more
> newsgroups to take a quick look at.
>
> This method of stumbling on UseNet *"Bit.Listserv.CoCo"* News Group is

> what
> we have lost.
>
> If they are just starting out they may just see a lot of Spam and no 
> recent
> traffic about CoCo's.
>
> I wonder if Earthlink may be willing to delete all the old messages 
> which
> are overwhelmed with Spam?
>
> IMHO we should find a way and start posting the groups messages to the
> UseNet *"Bit.Listserv.CoCo"* News Group as soon as we can. A new 
> beginning.
>
> Any nay-sayers would be requested to be specific with their problems 
> and
> help requested to overcome the problems.
>
> The number of new CoCo posters has been a steady rate of several each 
> week.
> I add their names to my address book and flag all CoCo messages so 
> that any
> new member posting is recognized by me.  This is just the rate of new 
> people
> posting, I assume that many more are quietly reading.
>
> We really have a growing group. Are counts being kept?
>
> The above is also true for other news readers and other ISP's.
>
> IMHO the time is right to restart UseNet *"Bit.Listserv.CoCo"* News 
> Group
> with lots of real CoCo traffic.
>
> We have so much going on that is so very good that we should become 
> more
> visible on UseNet.
> ------------------------------------------------------
> The upcoming change to Windows XP, Service pack 2 (SP2) is a major 
> change to
> the internet for all users of Windows XP.
>
> I suspect that just about everyone will switch to this new way of 
> using the
> internet. Those persons who are slow to change will be pressured by 
> their
> ISP's to do so. The ISP's will save money and businesses also. It will

> be
> high pressure and required.
>
> -------------------------------------------------
> Both of the methods below assume that persons have discovered 
> information
> about out existence. Low probability that they have.
> -- 
> Stephen H. Fischer <sfischer1 at mindspring.com>
>
> Dennis Bathory-Kitsz wrote:
>> At 11:35 PM 5/27/04 -0700, Stephen H. Fischer wrote:
>>> Am I correct that it is not possible to read the current messages
>>> leaving no indication that they have?
>>
>> It is possible in two ways:
>>
>> 1. via private news server news.gmane.org (no password to read, 
>> accessible
>> through any ISP): gmane.comp.hardware.tandy.coco
>> 2. via the web: http://five.pairlist.net/pipermail/coco/
>>
>> Dennis
>
>
>
>
> -- 
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