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Sometimes I wonder about those monkeys on the typewriters (1), and how similar that is to spamming. One of the stories relating to that theory, is that if you put those said 6 monkeys on typewriters, they'll write every book in the Great Library... (...) (24 years ago, 18-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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The way I heard it was: "It is said that an infinite number of monkeys at keyboards will eventually produce great works of literature. But now that we have the internet, we know that is not the case." (24 years ago, 19-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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Well Shiri i discoverd that switching to an altered e-mail addie every 3 months for a year tends to reduce spam-don't ask why but it works ravi (24 years ago, 19-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) Sure. It takes them a little while to find your address somewhere and stick you on lists. I've toyed with setting up a scheme whereby the addresses I use publicly auto-expire after 30 days... (24 years ago, 19-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) yah, but won't it be a pain to resubscribe to all the mailing lists you read with a new email address every 30 days? I guess that could be automated as well... hmm.... Have you thought of filtering with ORBs or RBL? I havn't reached that point (...) (24 years ago, 19-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) I try to avoid subscribing to mailing lists. That's what NNTP is for. :) (...) I mostly just add it to my procmail rules. I used to be very active in reporting these things, but it started to wear on me, y'know? (24 years ago, 19-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Me either. I use the web interface for lugnet, and q'r'us (is the only mailing list I'm on... I hope Matthew doesn't give my addy to third-parties :-) (...) Now that hotmail added the "Bulk-mail" feature, it's so much easier for me to avoid (...) (24 years ago, 19-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) and don't list your e-mail addie anywhere!!except lugnet that is 8-) (24 years ago, 19-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) :) Don't worry. We certainly do not. (24 years ago, 19-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) mailing (...) Didn't think so! I was just checking ;) -Shiri (24 years ago, 19-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) You'd be much more likely to get something worthy of Shakespeare with a little conflict...say, six monkeys on *one* typewriter. eep eep, Lindsay (24 years ago, 20-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) As Brak's mother said, "I told you never trust a monkey!" (24 years ago, 20-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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