spammed e-mail post?

[Linda R.]

I posted awhile back and used my real e-mail address. I
feel dumb now but I thought it was safe. NOT!!!
After posting on this news-group I started getting e-
mails that looked scrary. (lots of them!) The problem
with not posting my real e-mail address is that I feel
phony. (get over it,right?)
I just started doing this tonight and wondered does
everyone use a fake address? And if so why not, NOT make
it mandatory? Why have (senders E-mail) on "Post a New
Message" board if no one puts their real one down?
The plus to being real is that I received a helpful
reply in my e-mail from a MVP. Could a MVP answer this
question please and anyone else thats had this problem.
Is there a way to be honest and safe or is phony the way
to go?!
Yes, somebody can really be this dumb (or naive is a
nicer word) Please no smart-alick answers. This was hard
enough to post.

[Silly You]

"Linda R." > wrote in message =
...
> I posted awhile back and used my real e-mail address. I=20
> feel dumb now but I thought it was safe. NOT!!!=20
> After posting on this news-group I started getting e-
> mails that looked scrary. (lots of them!) The problem=20
> with not posting my real e-mail address is that I feel=20
> phony. (get over it,right?)
> I just started doing this tonight and wondered does=20
> everyone use a fake address? And if so why not, NOT make=20
> it mandatory? Why have (senders E-mail) on "Post a New=20
> Message" board if no one puts their real one down?=20
> The plus to being real is that I received a helpful=20
> reply in my e-mail from a MVP. Could a MVP answer this=20
> question please and anyone else thats had this problem.=20
> Is there a way to be honest and safe or is phony the way=20
> to go?!
> Yes, somebody can really be this dumb (or naive is a=20
> nicer word) Please no smart-alick answers. This was hard=20
> enough to post.=20

You ****ed up, plain and simple. Just remove your email addy from the =
properties of the news sever, and give it the @ symbol, and it will =
recognise that as an address.

[Sharon F]

If you check some of the "munged" emails, they are pretty obvious. Enough to
keep spambots at bay but not so extreme as to deter anyone that wants to
email you. Also, you could add your correct email address to a sigfile that
appears in the body of the message vs. the headers.


--
Sharon F
Microsoft MVP, Windows - Shell/User

Linda R. wrote:
> I posted awhile back and used my real e-mail address. I
> feel dumb now but I thought it was safe. NOT!!!
> After posting on this news-group I started getting e-
> mails that looked scrary. (lots of them!) The problem
> with not posting my real e-mail address is that I feel
> phony. (get over it,right?)
> I just started doing this tonight and wondered does
> everyone use a fake address? And if so why not, NOT make
> it mandatory? Why have (senders E-mail) on "Post a New
> Message" board if no one puts their real one down?
> The plus to being real is that I received a helpful
> reply in my e-mail from a MVP. Could a MVP answer this
> question please and anyone else thats had this problem.
> Is there a way to be honest and safe or is phony the way
> to go?!
> Yes, somebody can really be this dumb (or naive is a
> nicer word) Please no smart-alick answers. This was hard
> enough to post.

[Jupiter Jones [MVP]]

Linda;
Many people use phoney addresses.
Others like me use an address that can be deciphered by a human but
not as easily by a spambot.
One important thing is to not use a real domain.
If a real domain is used, that domain gets extra junk mail because of
your phoney address that may in fact be real.

--
Jupiter Jones [MVP]
An easier way to read newsgroup messages:
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/pro/using/newsgroups/setup.asp
Please respond to newsgroup only for everyone's benefit.


"Linda R." > wrote in message
...
> I posted awhile back and used my real e-mail address. I
> feel dumb now but I thought it was safe. NOT!!!
> After posting on this news-group I started getting e-
> mails that looked scrary. (lots of them!) The problem
> with not posting my real e-mail address is that I feel
> phony. (get over it,right?)
> I just started doing this tonight and wondered does
> everyone use a fake address? And if so why not, NOT make
> it mandatory? Why have (senders E-mail) on "Post a New
> Message" board if no one puts their real one down?
> The plus to being real is that I received a helpful
> reply in my e-mail from a MVP. Could a MVP answer this
> question please and anyone else thats had this problem.
> Is there a way to be honest and safe or is phony the way
> to go?!
> Yes, somebody can really be this dumb (or naive is a
> nicer word) Please no smart-alick answers. This was hard
> enough to post.

[Silly You]

"Sharon F" > wrote in message =
...

> Also, you could add your correct email address to a sigfile that
> appears in the body of the message vs. the headers.

But that doesn't stop the spammers, but only still gives away an email =
addy for one who wants to mine them desparately enough. Posting a total =
bull**** email addy is the best way! Personally, OE (and even the web =
based news reader, which is complete crap) should be allowed to not have =
an email needed to post a message. Logically thinking, since replies are =
supposed to come back to the NG for the benefit thereof!

[DennisLazo.com]

linda,

one may put a real email address in here. i do that too for a reason but
have made appropriate protection on my part.

one of the options you can do when you place your email address...add other
characters to it so that a web bot may not be able to scan it and place it
in its database. for example, you can use
but you have to mention in your post that if a user wants to reply, he has
to remove the nospam entry in your email address.

some would do it this way which is quite
obvious.

the reason why you may have received spam emails is because the posts here
may be read using a web based reader. spammers are always on the lookout
for anything on the net that looks like or
..org or .net or what have you...and they are getting pretty smarter by the
minute.

and please don't be too hard on yourself. we all make mistakes...i guess we
all learn from falling down first.

regards,
dennis
dennislazo.com/nw


"Linda R." > wrote in message
...
| I posted awhile back and used my real e-mail address. I
| feel dumb now but I thought it was safe. NOT!!!
| After posting on this news-group I started getting e-
| mails that looked scrary. (lots of them!) The problem
| with not posting my real e-mail address is that I feel
| phony. (get over it,right?)
| I just started doing this tonight and wondered does
| everyone use a fake address? And if so why not, NOT make
| it mandatory? Why have (senders E-mail) on "Post a New
| Message" board if no one puts their real one down?
| The plus to being real is that I received a helpful
| reply in my e-mail from a MVP. Could a MVP answer this
| question please and anyone else thats had this problem.
| Is there a way to be honest and safe or is phony the way
| to go?!
| Yes, somebody can really be this dumb (or naive is a
| nicer word) Please no smart-alick answers. This was hard
| enough to post.
|

[Bruce Chambers]

Greetings --

Most spammers use automated software to "mine" email addresses
from public forums and news groups. Until they make spamming the
capital offense that it should be, I see nothing wrong with your
taking any and all reasonable defensive measures. While no single
method is 100% spam-proof, you can lighten the load considerably.

It is perfectly reasonable to use a "mangled" email address (by
adding a few obviously incorrect characters) to thwart the automated
systems, and still leave your address understandable and accessible to
those carbon-based life-forms who wish to contact you directly. A
quick look at my email address will illustrate this point. People who
wish to contact me directly with follow-up questions to my posted
responses have had no trouble doing so. (Aside: I'd much prefer to
keep all such conversations in the news groups, where others may
benefit and learn from them. I do understand, however, that some
specific details of a system configuration or problem may be desirable
to be kept out of the public eye.)

Other people use a "throw-away" email address when posting to news
groups. A throw-away address is one created on one of the free
web-based email systems, such as HotMail or Yahoo, created for the
sole purpose of use in public forums/ news groups. These accounts get
all of the spam, and the poster's true email address remains
relatively unmolested.

When spam does get through, I _always_ report the spammer to
his/her ISP, forward it to the Federal Trade Commission ),
which is working on legislation to stop/limit spam, and add the sender
to my blocked senders list.


Bruce Chambers

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"Linda R." > wrote in message
...
> I posted awhile back and used my real e-mail address. I
> feel dumb now but I thought it was safe. NOT!!!
> After posting on this news-group I started getting e-
> mails that looked scrary. (lots of them!) The problem
> with not posting my real e-mail address is that I feel
> phony. (get over it,right?)
> I just started doing this tonight and wondered does
> everyone use a fake address? And if so why not, NOT make
> it mandatory? Why have (senders E-mail) on "Post a New
> Message" board if no one puts their real one down?
> The plus to being real is that I received a helpful
> reply in my e-mail from a MVP. Could a MVP answer this
> question please and anyone else thats had this problem.
> Is there a way to be honest and safe or is phony the way
> to go?!
> Yes, somebody can really be this dumb (or naive is a
> nicer word) Please no smart-alick answers. This was hard
> enough to post.
>