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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.

In a previous message, M Greene (mgreene@voicenet.com) wrote:
> 	I'm sending this note out to most of the newsgroups that I regularly
> post(I already posted to m.t.u-t and phl.transportation).  If you see
> that the beginning sig. of my newsposts is a little different, well,
> there's a reason.  My sister and I have been getting hit big time with
> spam mail, and we're trying some different approaches to combat
> this.(Some of us may also consider other posts on here as spam, and
> some may call this spam, but I'm sure that all of the regulars on the
> groups that are getting this post are getting spam, and are doing what
> they can to combat it.)  Also, I'm trying another end sig., as part of
> the efforts.  If you don't see the traditional end of my post, then
> I'll know that that part didn't work. 
> 	Just a personal note(any help out there?...Colin...Even Big Don?)
> 
> Later
> 
> Michael T. Greene
> 
> Because of the influx of junk mail, send all e-mail responses
> to the following address: mgreene@voicenet.com@removethisbeforemailing
> 



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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.

<No signature line here>

In article <5b9gsc$o62@freenet-news.carleton.ca> ag414@FreeNet.Carleton.CA (Colin R. Leech) writes:
>
>I'm following up on this article publicly, because it's becoming a common
>problem and many of us are experiencing the same problems.

Apolgies for spamming from me too :-)

>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.

Anyone know how you do this in Unix's rn?
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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.