e-mail question

[Steve]

www.firetrust.com

They do a free verson of Mail Washer. You can use it to 'bounce' email back
to where it came from. This gives the impression that your email address
does not exist. Try it. It's a great idea that DOES work.

 

[Bill James]

Actually, it would be better to use @NOSPAMearthlink.com (without the extra dot). By doing it that way you are sending responses to a non-existent domain instead of cluttering up earthlink's mail servers with undeliverable mail.

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[Paul]

I'm up to over 500 e-mails in the last 36 hours which include the worm. I
suspect that my address was acquired from these newsgroups, however I've
always been very careful not to post the address at the bottom of the page
in my signature. Did I err and not realize that my real e-mail address is
somewhere else in the message?

 

[Bruce Chambers]

Greetings --

Good point. That hadn't occurred to me, but I've now "mended my
ways."

Bruce Chambers

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Actually, it would be better to use @NOSPAMearthlink.com (without the
extra dot). By doing it that way you are sending responses to a
non-existent domain instead of cluttering up earthlink's mail servers
with undeliverable mail.

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Bill James
Microsoft Shell/UI

Win9x VBScript Utilities » www.billsway.com/vbspage/
Windows Tweaks & Tips » www.billsway.com/notes_public/

 

[Ken Blake]

In

I'm up to over 500 e-mails in the last 36 hours which include the
worm. I suspect that my address was acquired from these newsgroups,
however I've always been very careful not to post the address at the
bottom of the page in my signature. Did I err and not realize that
my real e-mail address is somewhere else in the message?

Your E-mail address, (e-mail address removed), is in the message
header, which is where the attribution line above found it. The
worm likely found it there too.

Since you're using Outlook Express, you can get rid of the
address by going to Tools | Accounts, double-clicking on your
News account and changing it on the General tab.

 

[Sandy]

Good point.

 

[GSV Three Minds in a Can]

Actually, it would be better to use @NOSPAMearthlink.com (without the
extra dot). By doing it that way you are sending responses to a
non-existent domain instead of cluttering up earthlink's mail servers
with undeliverable mail.

Actually it would be better to use <something>.invalid, since a) you
have no reason to believe 'nospamearthlink.com' is not, or might not one
day be, someone's domain, and b) even if it isn't, a lot of bytes
whizzing around DNS machines may happen trying to find a route to it
(since .com is a valid top level domain type).

btw, Swen.A appears to pull 'reply to' addresses, which is a first
afaik.

 

[Jim Macklin]

I'm using .calm now.

Wouldn't that be a great domain for a shrink
(e-mail address removed)


message | Bitstring <[email protected]>, from
the wonderful
| person Bill James <[email protected]> said
| >Actually, it would be better to use @NOSPAMearthlink.com
(without the
| >extra dot). By doing it that way you are sending
responses to a
| >non-existent domain instead of cluttering up earthlink's
mail servers
| >with undeliverable mail.
|
|
| Actually it would be better to use <something>.invalid,
since a) you
| have no reason to believe 'nospamearthlink.com' is not, or
might not one
| day be, someone's domain, and b) even if it isn't, a lot
of bytes
| whizzing around DNS machines may happen trying to find a
route to it
| (since .com is a valid top level domain type).
|
| btw, Swen.A appears to pull 'reply to' addresses, which is
a first
| afaik.
| --
| GSV Three Minds in a Can
| Outgoing Msgs are Turing Tested,and indistinguishable from
human typing.

 

[Alex Nichol]

I'm up to over 500 e-mails in the last 36 hours which include the worm. I
suspect that my address was acquired from these newsgroups, however I've
always been very careful not to post the address at the bottom of the page
in my signature. Did I err and not realize that my real e-mail address is
somewhere else in the message?

Those mails are coming from someone whose machine is infected and who
has your email address in his address book. The only defence is to
change email address - and let no-one know what the new address is.
Which rather defeats the object.

 

[Brooke]

I love it!