Re: A personal technical note

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From: George Jefferson
Date: Mon, 13 Jan 1997 00:00

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: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.


If you mangle your from/reply to lines you will block legitimate
replies from people who dont know how to fix them, and from
people who dont want to waste time fixing them.
Whether this bothers you is a matter of personal opinion, of course.
Just something to be aware of.

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From: george@mech.seas.upenn.edu ( George Jefferson )
Subject: Re: A personal technical note
Date: 1997/01/13
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