Well, I doesn’t ! Gives I the shites.
Wallie
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-----Original
Message-----
From:
[ On Behalf Of John Gamblin
Sent: Friday, 12 November 2004
8:54 AM
To: Russell Woodford; birding aus
Subject: Re: [BIRDING-AUS] Real
Names, Real Spam and Real Birding
But Rusty lub I like
spam? with a bit of chutney wedged twix some well buttered fresh bread rolls
....
Russell Woodford
<> wrote:
OK everyone - time to
drop this thread I think. We'll leave the archives as they are for now - I
agree with Andrew that they provide a useful resource to many people who
never subscribe to the mailing list. I was interested in his comments about his
"dummy" address that doesn't get any spam despite being represented
on the archive. In other words:
*** posting to birding-aus doesn't automatically get your address on
spam lists. ***
The most likely reasons for getting spam are:
Signing up for competitions and offers online
Signing up to game sites, chat sites, blogs, etc
Using webmail (e.g. Hotmail, Yahoo, etc - although GMail seems a lot
better - no spam from my GMail account yet)
Having your name as your account name (e.g. gets MUCH
more spam than my other dodo accounts) The same can be said for account names
that can be constructed easily by a text generator:
It's very easy to write a program to generate thousands of possible names like
these, then send them all the same message... voila! Instant Spam! It would be
interesting to see how little spam is received by people with - or _ in their
account names. That's usually enough to fool the auto account name generators.
Anyway - this mailing list is about BIRDS and BIRDWATCHING - so enough from me,
and enough of this topic on the list!
Cheers
Rusty
Russell Woodford
Birding-Aus List Owner
Geelong Victoria Australia
http://www.birding-aus.org
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