Would some one please email me how to do the little trick of including extra
characters in your email address to foil the email harvesters.

Thanx, Allan

In AOL:

Keyword: Newsgroups

Click "Set Preferences"

Click "Posting" Tab

Enter something (not nospam) in Junk Block area.

John Fernandez

Thanx John!

Test

Ok it works (and Thanx Again John!).

But seems to me that it could pretty easily defeated by searching for certain
strings imbedded in larger strings.

However, any port in a storm....

"Fifiela" wrote in message
...

Ok it works (and Thanx Again John!).

But seems to me that it could pretty easily defeated by searching for
certain
strings imbedded in larger strings.

However, any port in a storm....

It can be and often is but it's better than nothing.

StanB

OTHERE (Fifiela) writes:
But seems to me that it could pretty easily defeated by searching
for certain strings imbedded in larger strings.

However, any port in a storm....

You really have to dump your old screen name and choose a new one.
Even if you stop using your old name, it will keep getting spammed
til the end of time.

You really have to dump your old screen name and choose a new one.
Even if you stop using your old name, it will keep getting spammed
til the end of time.

My incoming spam level is pretty low. AOL started to do a good job of blocking
within the last 6 months.

Paul Rubin writes:

OTHERE (Fifiela) writes:
But seems to me that it could pretty easily defeated by searching
for certain strings imbedded in larger strings.

However, any port in a storm....

You really have to dump your old screen name and choose a new one.
Even if you stop using your old name, it will keep getting spammed
til the end of time.

That's what .procmailrc is for.


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Kenneth Sloan
Computer and Information Sciences (205) 934-2213
University of Alabama at Birmingham FAX (205) 934-5473
Birmingham, AL 35294-1170 http://www.cis.uab.edu/info/faculty/sloan/