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Colin R. Leech wrote:
> 
> I'm following up on this article publicly, because it's becoming a common
> problem and many of us are experiencing the same problems.
> 
> Changing the address in the signature file is a nice backup step, but I
> understand that most of the junk mail programs that browse newsgroups
> picking up addresses for e-mail spam are picking the addresses from the
> "From:" and "Reply-to:" headers on the articles. This is much easier than
> trying to decipher random signature files. If you have any capability of
> changing these two lines, you can probably cut down on your junkmail
> significantly. Yours were not altered from the normal on this article.
> 
> Also be warned that some spammers are picking up this info from Web site
> visits as well.

I don't have signature lines.  But I still get spam.  My spam probably no doubt comes 
from the "From:" header, since I also don't have a "Reply-to" header.  I've always 
suspected that the spammers have been getting my address from there.  And I've also 
begun to suspect that Web site visits have been compounding the problem.

Attention anyone who posts technical information here:  Please consider those of us who 
are purely end users and neither know UNIX nor have access to a shell account on our 
providers.  If at all possible, if you are going to give advice on how to change any 
information, if there's a way to do it via an end-user browser/mailer/newsgroup reader 
such as Netscape Navigator, PLEASE, give this information, too.  Thanks.

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