Re: Spam

Lesley Robertson wrote:

"Josiah Jenkins" <josiah-jenkins@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:n92t645amulgauqvuiqbo37u4isjlj8ed5@xxxxxxxxxx


Like my Dr Josiah J Jenkins ?
(Born sometime around 1997 in scs and now on his 4th e-mail account)
http://www.ian-stewart.eu/z-josiah.html


I see nothing wrong with esablishing a net persona and using that. What I'm objecting to is anonymous messages, unsigned and with a fake email address. Consistently signing with an established pen-name (keyboard-name?) where half the people in the relevant group know who you are anyway is hardly anonymous. I'm not sure why I've never gotten around to establishing a scs alter-ego - possibly because I seem to end up playing the straight man. MacRobert spent weeks trying to convince me that he wasn't really a Clansman, something I was very well aware of from the start!
I'm still not convinced that Usenet is the main source of spam - they'll get you whenever you use a real address, it just takes longer (although I've never worked out what the point of spending time and effort on a programme that will de-munge e-addresses is. If someone has gone to the trouble of munging an address, they're hardly going to say "how clever of you to contact me, of course I will buy from you!"). I've been getting spam (all in german for some reason) to the e-address given for contact from my website, an address that's never been used for anything else. The address I use on Usenet is an old work one which still works but will eventually vanish, and cannot explain the quantities of spam that Mr Norton dumps for me from my personal and current work emails.

Only problem has been that a certain lady who sometimes posts here
recently believed that I really had a Doctorate in <something>.


Not me, babe, I know who you are! And where!
Lesley Robertson



On another account, which hasn't been used for usenet I get a lot of ethnically-focussed spam. Shame the etnnic involved isn't my own, but hey ...?

Cookies can be dangerous.

Cheryl
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