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Re: comp.sys.wearables

There is an easy way to combat robots auto-collecting
email.  Configure the gateway so that when ever it posts
to the ng from the mailing list to change the email address
a little, something like this:
 would like something like

Something like that would prove very efficient against such
robots.
DaemonMan
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Do NOT let them deceive you with the legitimization of their myth!


On Fri, 15 May 1998 21:54:14 GMT  (Ken Stone)
writes:
>
>>I hope that if the list does continue, posts will (as a rule) be 
>carbon
>>copied to the newsGroup for those interested & invloved but not on 
>the
>>mailing list.
>
>And I hope, as a rule, that they won't be.  Why?  
>
>One word: Spam.
>
>So long as robots are out there auto-collecting e-mail addresses,
>and so long as there isn't a working wide-spread anti-spam protocol 
>in place (e.g. a reward program for bounty hunters :)/2 ), one's 
>privacy 
>gets flushed down the toilet whenever they post anything to Lusenet.  
>Call me uptight, but junk e-mail REALLY bothers me.  I haven't posted 
>anything to the net in over a year, and I *still* get unwanted crap 
>in my mailbox almost every day.
>
>
>

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