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Evans A Criswell
Phenomenal Film Handler
Posts: 1579
From: Huntsville, AL, USA
Registered: Mar 2000
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posted 11-27-2000 09:17 AM
Based on my experiences, I've found that fighting spam seems to be a waste of time. You might be able to stop a few places from spamming you, but for every one you stop, there are hundreds more. About three years ago, I decided to start deleting the stuff, since I can recognize at least 90 percent of the spam email by the subject line, and the other 10 percent I delete after glancing at the first page. Letting the general public access the internet was a great thing (remember, you used to have to be at an educational or government institution) and spam is one of the unpleasant side effects of the "opening up" of the internet to the general public. Most people/companies are now using the internet to make money by advertising rather than for research type use. They see spamming as an easy, low-cost way to spread their ads. Even if only 1 person in a thousand responds, they'll make money. The net is not setup to stop this type of use, in the same way that the telephone system was never setup to protect people from telemarketers. There are worse things in life than email spam. Fighting it is a good way to use a lot of energy and accomplish very little. Just delete the messages that you know are spam before reading them.In my experiences, posting to USENET groups has gotten me onto SPAM lists more than anything else. I have one account that I use for USENET posting and that account gets way more spam than any other. However, putting your email address in any publicly accessible place on the net is likely to get you on spammers' lists. It is simple to write a Perl script to scan WWW sites and follow links to extract email addresses from the text of pages. If someone sees doing that as a simple way to blast a bunch of people with ads, they'll do it. I don't feel strongly enough about the spam to stop using public forums or to stop posting to USENET, because I've had many useful exchanges of information and have learned a lot by using such forums and groups. I accept the fact that using such groups will get me some spam email. I use a mailer that allows me to easily delete messages without reading them, so the spammers waste very little of my time.
Speaking of misspelling things: If you're curious about where junk post office mail is coming from, when you subscribe to magazines, change your middle initial and use a different middle initial each time you subscribe to something. When junk mail comes in, check to see which initial was used.
Evans
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