Re: changing MAC address questions

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In <o6cmk154efm0c0o5gg8vq4cpa0tirt5h6g@xxxxxxx> on Mon, 10 Oct 2005 20:37:34
-0700, Jeff Liebermann <jeffl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>On 10 Oct 2005 15:03:03 -0500, Chuck <none@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>>BTW, posting your email address openly will get you more unwanted email, than
>>wanted email. Learn to munge your email address properly, to keep yourself a
>>bit safer when posting to open forums. Protect yourself and the rest of the
>>internet - read this article.
>><http://nitecruzr.blogspot.com/2005/05/how-to-post-on-usenet-and-encourage.html#Munging>
>
>Have you verified that as true? I have 3 mailboxes that I have used
>since the stone age of the internet (when it was all Usenet, there was
>no web, and everything ran on Telebit modems with UUCP). I have never
>bothered to mung, mutilate, or otherwise hide my email addresses. I
>get no more junk email than any of my friends and accomplises that go
>through rediculous exercises to avoid the spammers. ...

It's amazing to me how many urban legends are passed around the Internet that
have no sound basis. This is one of them.

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