The voice of "Syncme" drifted in on the cyber-winds,
from the sea of virtual chaos...
I noticed there are several people here posting with valid email
addresses. As far as I knew this was bad practice however, some
seem to be from people who are offering good/valuable advice.
Has this changed in anyway or are they using some means of
avoiding spambots picking up the addresses that I'm not aware of.
It all works out to the level your at...
When you first start out "munging" is the easiest way to deal with spam
& Viruses. One quick mod and the UCE trickles to a stop in 6 to 8
months (results may very). If your luck you'll never see the
Spam/Viruses/Malware again; or about as long as it takes someone with
your Un-munged email address to become infected/exploited.
The second step away is to use a real email account and use your
provider's email filters (a filtered account). It's an active
approach, but prone to a varying degree of lost email...
At some point you realizes that email can be important enough that it
can't be missed. That's where a growing trend in using a "drop box"
comes into play. It can be a second account, a forwarded web-mail, or
even an alias on your domain, as long as it can be "visually checked"
occasionally for real email so you know you didn't miss anything.
Oh, and I don't mung my Usenet address...
The "spam@" part is only there to exploit many of the harvesting
viruses trend in ignoring "invalid" email addresses. };8)
