Keep my address from bot rovers

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Dugie

How do most people in newsgroups have addresses which prevent roving netbots
from getting their email addresses?

For example:

real address is: (e-mail address removed)

address displayed in messages is: (e-mail address removed)
remove nospam to email me.

I'm getting a lot more junk email since starting to use newsgroups.

Thanks.

- Dugie
 
Dugie said:
How do most people in newsgroups have addresses which prevent roving
netbots from getting their email addresses?

For example:

real address is: (e-mail address removed)

address displayed in messages is: (e-mail address removed)
remove nospam to email me.

I'm getting a lot more junk email since starting to use newsgroups.

Thanks.

- Dugie
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Are you munging your addy in OE? You didn't for this post:


Path:
uni-berlin.de!fu-berlin.de!nf3.bellglobal.com!ursa-nb00s0.nbnet.nb.ca!53
ab2750!not-for-mail
From: "Dugie" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups: alt.comp.freeware
Subject: Keep my address from bot rovers
 
Mark Warner said:
Are you munging your addy in OE? You didn't for this post:


Path:
uni-berlin.de!fu-berlin.de!nf3.bellglobal.com!ursa-nb00s0.nbnet.nb.ca!53
ab2750!not-for-mail
From: "Dugie" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups: alt.comp.freeware
Subject: Keep my address from bot rovers
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Hi Mark,

I know my address is displayed. I want to know how to "mung" it. Is it possible
to mung it using OE?
The way you do it is great.

- Dugie
 
Dugie said:
I know my address is displayed. I want to know how to "mung" it. Is it possible
to mung it using OE?
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In Outlook Express

click on Tools
click on Accounts
select the News tab
highlight the account that you use to access Usenet
click on Properties
select the General Tab

in the Name field, enter the name you want to appear on screen beside the
header

in the Email Address field, enter the email addy that you want to be
visible.

HTH
 
George Richards said:
In Outlook Express

click on Tools
click on Accounts
select the News tab
highlight the account that you use to access Usenet
click on Properties
select the General Tab

in the Name field, enter the name you want to appear on screen beside the
header

in the Email Address field, enter the email addy that you want to be
visible.
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Perfect. Thank you, George. It's easy when you know how.

- Dugie


lose invalid to reply
 
George,

To be more accurate, I am very grateful that you showed me how to do this, and
I'm also excited about the protection from web bots that I now have!
Thank you for taking the time to educate me.

- Dugie

George Richards said:
In Outlook Express
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<snip>
 
Dugie said:
George,

To be more accurate, I am very grateful that you showed me how
to do this, and I'm also excited about the protection from web
bots that I now have! Thank you for taking the time to educate
me.

- Dugie



<snip>
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Another good group for general questions (non-freeware topics) is
24hoursupport.helpdesk :)

Could you kindly bottom post in this news group? Please.

Thank You Very Much :-)
 
Dugie wrote:
| George,
|
| To be more accurate, I am very grateful that you showed me how to do
| this, and I'm also excited about the protection from web bots that I
| now have!
| Thank you for taking the time to educate me.
|
| - Dugie
|

Change your e-mail address. The protection you have *now* is betrayed by the
previous un-munged posts that you have made.

HTH
five
 
How do most people in newsgroups have addresses which prevent roving
netbots
from getting their email addresses?
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Someone already explained how to change your address. Now check our
www.sparkingwire.com for an address to use.
--
Brian Tillman
Smiths Aerospace
3290 Patterson Ave. SE, MS 1B3
Grand Rapids, MI 49512-1991
Brian.Tillman is the name, smiths-aerospace.com is the domain.

I don't speak for Smiths, and Smiths doesn't speak for me.
 
That is one of those annoyances that comes with keeping the Internet free of
all but minimal government control. I just quit listing mine, although it
has already been compromised on this NG, and replaced it with a totally
fictional one. If I need to contact anyone directly I will give my email
address in the body of the post where the spambots don't, for now at least,
check.
 
You think so? Maybe you are right. But somewhere, I'll bet there are a
bunch of desperados who are paid a pittance for scouring all sources
(newsgroups, websites, mailing lists, etc) and coming up with lists of
unmunged addresses. In the end, they will get you no matter how you
disguise your address. The only answers are spam filters or changing
your address regularly.

JMHO.
Adrian Carter

Jason de Bougainville said:
That is one of those annoyances that comes with keeping the Internet free of
all but minimal government control. I just quit listing mine, although it
has already been compromised on this NG, and replaced it with a totally
fictional one. If I need to contact anyone directly I will give my email
address in the body of the post where the spambots don't, for now at least,
check.
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remainder snipped
 
That is one of those annoyances that comes with keeping the Internet free of
all but minimal government control. I just quit listing mine, although it
has already been compromised on this NG, and replaced it with a totally
fictional one. If I need to contact anyone directly I will give my email
address in the body of the post where the spambots don't, for now at least,
check.
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You don't think that people are harvesting addresses from Google
Groups???
--
Jonathan

"Kids are great Apu! You can teach them to hate the things you hate, and
they practically raise themselves with the internet and all!"

H.S.
 
Dugie said:
George,

To be more accurate, I am very grateful that you showed me how to do this, and
I'm also excited about the protection from web bots that I now have!
Thank you for taking the time to educate me.
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Your welcome Dugie.

Someone else has suggested that you now change your e-mail addy, because
your old one was previously exposed. This is good advice.

Adding something like "invalid" to the middle of the address will protect
you from the address bots. You may want to consider creating a completely
ficticious addy, to give added protection from the malicious actions of a
single person. (A few months ago, someone e-mailed a virus to several of
this group's participants.) After all you didn't really think there was a
@FatMan.com domain, did you?


HTH
 
Your welcome Dugie.
Click to expand...
Someone else has suggested that you now change your e-mail addy, because
your old one was previously exposed. This is good advice.
Click to expand...
Adding something like "invalid" to the middle of the address will protect
you from the address bots. You may want to consider creating a completely
ficticious addy, to give added protection from the malicious actions of a
single person. (A few months ago, someone e-mailed a virus to several of
this group's participants.) After all you didn't really think there was a
@FatMan.com domain, did you?
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Done a whois, lately? For values of lately which include "within the
last year?"
 
George said:
Your welcome Dugie.

Someone else has suggested that you now change your e-mail addy,
because your old one was previously exposed. This is good advice.

Adding something like "invalid" to the middle of the address will
protect you from the address bots. You may want to consider creating
a completely ficticious addy, to give added protection from the
malicious actions of a single person. (A few months ago, someone
e-mailed a virus to several of this group's participants.) After all
you didn't really think there was a @FatMan.com domain, did you?


HTH
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You'd better inform these people, then:

Registrant:
The Fat Man (FATMAN-DOM)
7611 Shoal Creek Blvd.
Austin, TX 78757
US

Domain Name: FATMAN.COM
 
Why use ".com" in a 'fictitious address?

Absolutely. It's much better to use an address that will get back at the
SPAMmers, like "localhost" or "[127.0.0.1]", which may cause them to receive
their own SPAM. Alternatives are the "sparkingwire.com" domain I use, which
simply accepts all mail sent to it and throws it away. It will even issue a
read receipt, if one is requested. There are also "teergrube" (German for
"tar pit") sites (although I didn't bother to search for any) that accept
mail from anyone and respond v-e-r-y--s-l-o-w-l-y so as to waste the
SPAMmer's time since, to a SPAMmer, getting as many messages out in the
shortest amount of time is a goal. If mail sending engine is sequential,
once it gets connected to an SMTP server, it can't continue until it's done
with the current message. Some teergrube owners have reported keeping mail
sending engines occupied for hours, effectively shutting them down for that
time.
--
Brian Tillman
Smiths Aerospace
3290 Patterson Ave. SE, MS 1B3
Grand Rapids, MI 49512-1991
Brian.Tillman is the name, smiths-aerospace.com is the domain.

I don't speak for Smiths, and Smiths doesn't speak for me.
 
I will give my email
address in the body of the post where the spambots don't, for now at least,
check.
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Um, think again.
--
Brian Tillman
Smiths Aerospace
3290 Patterson Ave. SE, MS 1B3
Grand Rapids, MI 49512-1991
Brian.Tillman is the name, smiths-aerospace.com is the domain.

I don't speak for Smiths, and Smiths doesn't speak for me.
 
Dugie said:
How do most people in newsgroups have addresses which prevent roving netbots
from getting their email addresses?

For example:

real address is: (e-mail address removed)

address displayed in messages is: (e-mail address removed)
remove nospam to email me.

I'm getting a lot more junk email since starting to use newsgroups.

Thanks.

- Dugie
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There is a very old freeware program called FixNews that worked with Netscape
that would allow you to "mung" your address and gave you the ability to add an
extra sig file to explain how to reply. It worked on newsgroup postings and not
on e-mails.



Remove "*" to reply
 
Frank Selvaggio said:
There is a very old freeware program called FixNews that worked with Netscape
that would allow you to "mung" your address and gave you the ability to add an
extra sig file to explain how to reply. It worked on newsgroup postings and not
on e-mails.
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Thanks to all for your suggestions!

- Dugie

lose .invalid to email
 
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