From: Amara Graps (amara@amara.com)
Date: Tue Sep 09 2003 - 06:50:22 MDT
>On Monday, September 8, 2003, at 07:15 PM, Emlyn O'regan wrote:
>> So put a NOSPAM in the address, or space it with underscores or
>> something.
Randall Randall:
>If that worked, you could have done it for the first address
>in the first place, and not bothered changing it. But it
>doesn't seem to work. Spam harvesters are pretty smart
>programs, I think.
There are some (not insignificant number, I think) of sys
admins that hate this idea, because it generates more garbage
on the Net. I made the goof a few years ago of putting
DELETETHIS in the middle of my German email address, as I
thought it was polite way to tell people what to remove of my
email address in order to reply to me when I wrote on Usenet
groups. Unfortunately there is really a company with the
domain of 'deletethis.de', and they were getting the spam that
was originally directed at me. I should have checked about
that, first, and I didn't.
Someone alerted me to the Germany sysadmin usenet group
discussing me, and one person was asking the group if his
company should fine me for manufacturing my email that way.
When I wrote them and said it was a simple mistake on my part;
I had a large web site with a lot of educational materials
that was getting harvested no matter what I did, they said
that creating an email address such as 'nospam...' was
*anti-social* and I was making garbage on the Net.
After that, I rarely write on Usenet now. I haven't decided
yet if I should remove my domain, however, since my eight year
domain is a tentacle into a space that is part of me too. It
would feel too strange to me, to not have it.
The 'net has been a big disappointment for me, in general though.
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