Re: OT spam!

On Mon, 2 Mar 2009 14:10:13 -0800, "Julie Bove"
<juliebove@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:


"Màck©®" <Màck@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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On Fri, 27 Feb 2009 23:09:31 -0600, "Robert Miles"
<robertmiles@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

"Julie Bove" <juliebove@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Anyone else had an increase in spam? I have gotten a few for pills and
meds. A few spoofs for Paypal and various banks. But mostly offers of
jobs, stimulus checks, re-financing my house and telling me I have won
some prize.

I do use Mailwasher, but I have so much spam now it is taking me about
10
minutes to remove it all. And removing it doesn't always work. For
some
reason I am sometimes still getting it in my inbox and sometimes I am
getting the same messages repeatedly.


Looks like your email address has been added to one of the address lists
that spammers sell to each other. One reason not to use your main email
address as your return address when you post to newsgroups, even if
that means you must set up a separate working email address to satisfy
your newsgroups provider's requirements.


you don't have to use a valid email address to fo that.

I do on this version of OE. I had an invalid addy and one day it gave me a
message that my e-mail wasn't valid. I tried an assortment of different
things but it wouldn't let me post until I put in the e-mail that I normally
use.



Is that the requirement of the news server or just the crappy rules
set by microshaft software?

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