re..post replys

Because spammers harvest newsgroups for email addresses and if you use your correct email you'll end up with hundreds emails a day mostly about viagra and dick enlargement. If you've been around usenet for a while you'd probably knew that as well as the fact that newsgroups do not like spammers.

Tom

If you can't post in plaintext then SHUT THE F*CK UP.

:p

Cheers, Nicholas Sherlock

Because sane people don't want their email address harvested by spammers.

And if you don't know how to post in plain text then .......

=_NextPart_000_0068_01C62715.1D3FBA30 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

Maybe they can know a d*****ad when they see one.

"Alex" wrote in news:JLSDf.232505$ snipped-for-privacy@news-server.bigpond.net.au:

The spammers know that you don't have a penis and recognise the folly in offering you opportunities for enlargement.

GB

You're lucky then. The email I use for Google Groups gets regular spam and phishing emails. Another email that I used back in 1996-97 when I posted direct to usenet still receives spams today.

My 'real' email address - active since 1996 - receives several hundred junk emails per day.

enough or have the guts to use their correct email addresses or contact details.but they are all big and brave to post or reply when nobody can contact them.if you have got nothing worth saying then SHUT THE F*CK UP.

ALex, you are already showing your ignorance by posting HTML. It is quite obvious you have not spent as much time as many of us in these newsgroups.

Well, because in a week of posting to any newsgroup, you inbox starts to be deluged with spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, spam.................................

So most people just mangle it a bit and hope that the carbon based lifeforms that might use it are more intelligent than the silicon based ones trying to send you spam.

I noticed recently that the spammers are now starting to "create" email addresses from other information in the headers, including parts of your email address.

Umm, doesn't logically follow.

Terry Collins wrote in news:43e56f83$0$17809 $ snipped-for-privacy@un-2park-reader-01.sydney.pipenetworks.com.au:

Rubbish, utter rubbish.

GB

Since I have been replying to newgroups Alex I have had countless spam and crap emails each day, just sorting through them and checking for viruses is a real good reason not to put your right email address, now guess what I will get a lot more because I have replied to your post. Unlucky

If you've got problems with unwanted spam, get Mailwasher. As I understand, it downloads the headers of each email (not the body) from your mail server, then filters the emails into different categories, and you can delete the ones from unknown sources. Then you can d/load the wanted emails easily. And its free. You can buy the Pro version for US$37.

I used to get 40-50 spam emails a day perhaps a year ago, but since the US put their anti-spamming laws in place, that's been cut back to 2-3 per day. Then I delete them with Mailwasher, and that's something I can live with.

BTW, Alex, it's preferable to post to newsgroups using text only, not using HTML. There's a setting in Outlook that enables that function.

Good Grief!

I've been posting to Usenet for, well, since before SPAM existed. The oldest address that is still current ( snipped-for-privacy@mira.net) and its descendants cop a lot of SPAM. (Hmm, I wonder if snipped-for-privacy@werple.apana.net.au still works... Waits... No, that's gone for good.)

The ISPs filters flag 99% (approximately) of it, and mailwasher deletes it before I download it.

The ACM, who provide my current address, feed mail through postini, and that catches about 99% too. And that address is re-directed elsewhere.

If you have a problem with SPAM, you just need to learn how to manage it. Munging your address is a simplistic start, but it does nothing about address generation, which is what most SPAM lists are using these days.

Oh, what's "address generation"?

Simple, take a domain, say, "bigpond.net".

Now, take a list of common words, names, and other things, and prepend them to it.

Say you try " snipped-for-privacy@bigpond.net" (sorry if you exist) and it doesn't bounce.

Tick the box, another valid address to sell.

Cheers, Gary B-)