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Bill Jackson <billjackson@NoSPAMhotmail.com> wrote:

> I
> suggest that you set up your newsreader pref. panel (personal information)
> to show your e-mail address with the word NoSPAM somewhere in the middle
> of the e-mail address. Add a note saying, "delete the word NoSPAM if you
> wish to send me e-mail". For example, bobjohnson@net.com becomes
> bobjohnson@NoSPAMnet.com
> I could explain why this solution works but I won't bore you with the
> details.

Bill, that sounds fine in theory, but as I said in another posting, the
spammers have quickly discovered that *after* you harvest the names, all
you have to do is to get your program to search addresses for NOSPAM and
extra spaces or whatever, and the email addresses all come up shiny new
and ready for use. You are going to have to get a little more
sophisticated in your mungeing than that.

Spammers have no regard whatsoever for the loathing of people who have
no choice but to receive their junk daily, but they are not generally
stupid. The only way to deal with them is to support those who have the
time, money and skills to hound them into the ground by making sure
their ISPs develop systems that will guarantee a retrospective penalty
of some kind. 

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