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    Re: Monkeys on typewriters or people on keyboards? —Ravi Mohan
   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)
   
        Re: Monkeys on typewriters or people on keyboards? —Matthew Miller
   (...) 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)
   
        Re: Monkeys on typewriters or people on keyboards? —Dan Boger
     (...) 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)
    
         Re: Monkeys on typewriters or people on keyboards? —Matthew Miller
     (...) 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)
    
         Re: Monkeys on typewriters or people on keyboards? —Shiri Dori
     (...) 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)
    
         Re: Monkeys on typewriters or people on keyboards? —Matthew Miller
     (...) :) Don't worry. We certainly do not. (24 years ago, 19-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
    
         Re: Monkeys on typewriters or people on keyboards? —Shiri Dori
     (...) mailing (...) Didn't think so! I was just checking ;) -Shiri (24 years ago, 19-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
   
        Re: Monkeys on typewriters or people on keyboards? —Ravi Mohan
   (...) 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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