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On 24 Sep 2003 18:33:00 -0700, Winfield Hill <whill@picovolt.com>
wrote:

>Jim Thompson wrote...
>>
>> I guess my feelings should be hurt... I've received not
>> a single one... but my server does some pre-filtering.
>
> You should have gotten a few, before your ISP learned all
> the new email worm's details.  Another interesting tidbit,
> my domain provider uses the highly-acclaimed spam assassin,
> which sadly fails to get more than about 1% of the offending
> email, possibly due to its semi-random naming scheme, which
> has prevented me from coming up with viable filters.
>
> BTW, propagating this stuff from email address books has
> an interesting implication: "hiding" your email address
> by making changes, such as you've done, should not be much
> help.  That's because the folks who store your address in
> their address books will have repaired the modifications.
>
> Thanks,
>    - Win

Never got a single one.  Indeed quite strange, but I'll not complain.

(My *web forwarding* ISP uses SpamCop *and* SPEWS lists plus "filters"
which they won't divulge to me.)

                                        ...Jim Thompson
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