29 Mar
2005
29 Mar
'05
11:48 p.m.
rude?? really? why?
after years of having to sift through spam all the time and losing
real mails in the spam folders, i'm paranoid about releasing my real
address onto the web in any form. so far i think i've only received
the brute force type mails to my real address, where they just guess
your address, and, of course, the few that get sent to my disposable
addresses.
20 per day!?? eek! sounds like a huge pain to me.
i've received exactly 10 spams since feb 28th (today is march 29th),
all of which are to disposable addresses (from mailing lists like this
one) and i can delete the address if someone big decides to put one on
their list and send me tons of internet pharmaceutical mailings. i
think it's a nice way to operate.
On Tue, 29 Mar 2005 21:33:14 -0500, Larry Troxler lt-at-westnet.com
|Linux Audio Users| <...> wrote:
On Tuesday 29 March 2005 20:55, Jon B wrote:
Because it's rude not to?
Honestly, are people's spam filters that bad that they can't handle this, or
is mine so bad in the other direction, that unbeknownst to me, I'm missing
most of the private mail I get?
I always use my real email address on all the email lists I'm subsrcribed to,
and also on usenet, and also on all web based message boards.
And yet, I at most I get about 20 unsolicited commercial emails per day, more
typically only about 5 per day.
Again, since I seem to be the only one not worried about this problem, I
wonder if I'm somehow missing valid emails. But I don't think so, because I
haven't had any such complaints.
So, what gives? What's the magical difference about my ISP that I don't have
to make life difficult for other people by mangling my email address, and
making them go through contortions to reply to me?
Larry
lt(a)westnet.com
lt(a)westnet.com
lt(a)westnet.com
^ See, I'm not afraid!
unfortunately, it is true that i signed noah up for spam - after
receiving a bunch of spam yesterday, and with my troll-like rage still
brewing over our exchanges, i expediently blamed noah and signed him up
on one of the pages the spam led to.
Why are you using real email addresses on a mailing list in the first
place?