RE: did we ever find out who subscribed rp-ml to all the spam lis ts?

From: Bauer Juergen (Juergen.Bauer@SPY.SIEMENS.DE)
Date: Tue Jul 13 1999 - 19:58:16 EEST

BJ,

There is a quite simple remedy not to be annoyed by spam robots in
newsgroups:
manipulate your "from" E-mail address, i.e from

your.name@company.com

to

no.spam.your.name@company.com or
your.name@company.com.nospam or
your.name@nospam.company.com ...

If someone (human) wants to reply directly, he would just leave away the
parts of the e-mail address that have obviously been added by you.
The others (robot) will have no success to reach you.

Mit freundlichen Grüßen With kind regards

Juergen Bauer

Siemens Electromechanical Components
EC CS A PD, Siemensstr. 13, 67346 Speyer, Germany
phone: +49 6232 30 2501, fax: +49 6232 30 2110, email:
Juergen.Bauer@ec.siemens.de

> -----Original Message-----
> From: ppsltd@airmail.net [SMTP:ppsltd@airmail.net]
> Sent: Tuesday, July 13, 1999 4:50 PM
> To: rp-ml@bart.lpt.fi
> Subject: did we ever find out who subscribed rp-ml to all the spam
> lists?
>
> Question - did we ever find out who subscribed the rp-ml to all the spam
> lists?
>
> Secondly, I note that I tend to spend time on a mailing list that is
> coming
> to me after I subscribed to it versus spnding time on a open newsgroup
> where
> there is a tremendous amount of "white noise" from posters that have no
> business being in the newsgroup. Additionally, the email robots that use
> postings to place your email on spamming lists have made me almost swear
> off
> newsgroups.
>
> If you think that the spammer volume is too high after this incident, wait
> until you do a newsgroup. Spammers use your email address from postings
> to
> sell your email address to others, or spam into the newsgroup to just
> annoy
> and perhaps sell one item.
>
> B. J. Arnold-Feret
> ppsltd@airmail.net
>
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