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Subject:	Re: Monkeys on typewriters or people on keyboards?
Newsgroups:	lugnet.off-topic.geek
Date:	Sun, 19 Mar 2000 06:36:50 GMT
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Matthew Miller wrote: > > ravi <helixwolf2000@hotmail.com> wrote: > > 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 > > 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... 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 yet, to activly avoid spam - I just report it, and move on... :) Dan

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		Re: Monkeys on typewriters or people on keyboards?
(...) 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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		Re: Monkeys on typewriters or people on keyboards?
(...) 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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