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From: Singhals <>
Subject: Re: Munged addresses
Date: Thu, 11 May 2000 21:16:50 -0700

> Irene Newhouse wrote;
> >
> >I don't understand spam distribution: I hear people complaining , &
> >mung-ing addresses. I've been posting to usenet genealogy groups
> >for several years now, have had the same e-mail address since 1988
> >or 1989, and get spam once a month, if that. It may be that some
> >newsgroups are considered more 'harvestable' than others & I've
> >managed to avoid the targets.
>
> I note that you post from an .edu address, it may be that your
> gateway filters the worst of the spam, it is possible to subscribe
> to services which send out the addresses of the worst spammers and
> the gateway automatically filters all mail fom them.
>
> On my home account I found that filtering everything from *.com got
> rid of nearly all the spam, but lately a few other domains have
> started creeping in.
>
> "Jon Rouse" < (omit nospam to reply)>


That may work in the UK, but in the States, filtering for .com would
ALSO trash replies to my consumer-related questions for umax.com and
epson.com, and IBM.com, not to mention the mail lists from
rootsweb.com, and other sites I do want mail from. (g)

Cheryl

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