[Coco] Spam

[jdaggett at gate.net]

One other means spammers get your email address is from the USENET. IF you 
post with the "reply to" as your actual email or main email address, then you will 
be loaded with spam. 

One thing is to insert a du mmy email or a yahoo or gmail account specifically for 
that so that you main email address is not cluttered up with spam. 

james

On 11 Feb 2007 at 12:45, Stephen H. Fischer wrote:

> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Roger Taylor" <operator at coco3.com>
> To: "CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts" <coco at maltedmedia.com>
> Sent: Sunday, February 11, 2007 12:57 AM Subject: [Coco] Spam
> 
> > Your presence on the web itself sets you up for spam e-mails.  I
> > think the forums are set to hide your e-mail address that you used
> > to sign up with.  This mailing list can be harvested, though?
> >
> >
> >
> > -- 
> > Roger Taylor
> 
> Hi,
> 
> You must sign up for the mailing list to receive it IMHO. So the
> mailing list members are a low risk (I expect and hope).
> 
> It is echoed to GMANE but the E-Mail addresses are replaced there with
> it's own address for our posters.
> 
> I think the biggest hole is Yahoo, those member's E-Mail addresses CAN
> be captured IMHO.
> 
> So, posting there is possible a problem. A strong reason to be careful
> with our quoting when posting there.
> 
> Note: My "Known SPAM" count has dropped recently from ~650 to ~200 in
> the last two weeks. Until about 3 months ago it was in the ~300 range.
> The ~650 count matched up with a report that I saw about SPAM
> increasing on the Web.
> 
> Earthlink marks all messages for addresses not in my online address
> book as "Suspect". Then I and other Earthlink users vote if a message
> is SPAM. If a message gets enough votes the message is removed from
> "Suspect" for all users thus the number of messages I must vote on is
> very small.
> 
> Stephen H. Fischer
> 
> 
> 
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