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Originally posted by Chuck Piper:
I am reluctant to hide my e-mail address from my forum friends so I will leave things as they are for the time being and deal with the SPAM as it arrives.


Chuck,

A technique used by many contributors to newsgroups is to try to mask their email address from automated systems whilst keeping it clear to human readers. Eg I could supply my email address as zzmdaniellzz@zzoptusnetzz.com.auz and add the comment 'remove z's to email me', or something like that.

I, too, use MailWasher, and it certainly makes it easy to delete mail before it is downloaded. However, in my case I still get 40 or so rubbish emails a day, many of which are marked by MailWasher as 'origin blacklist' which I think means I've already blacklisted them which also implies I've already bounced messages from those addresses. Still, I do recommend the program because (a) it is easy to get rid of the junk, and (b) I expect I have got myself off some lists.

Regards,
Mike


[This message has been edited by Mike Daniell (edited 12-04-2003).]

[This message has been edited by Mike Daniell (edited 12-04-2003).]