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From: Charani <>
Subject: Re: [LO] Poster afraid of showing email address
Date: Mon, 18 Jan 2010 22:25:53 +0000
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Pat Asher wrote:

> A 25% harvest of "valid" email addresses isn't bad, but they first
> have to figure out which ones are valid, to know which ones are
> not. So they have to start discarding any that don't include .net,
> .com, .org, etc. Then you have to consider that RW is international,
> and many email addresses end in .uk, .de, etc. In other words,
> someone has to put eyes on every single post. There are so many
> easier ways to get valid email addresses <g>

Spammers don't care whether an address is valid or not. They get paid
for the quantity of garbage they flood the web with. If a percentage
of the mails bounce around cyberspace, they don't care.

A large percentage of the traffic bouncing around cyberspace is
apparently misaddressed mails, according to the experts.

--
Charani (UK)
OPC for Walton and Greinton, SOM
Asst OPC for Ashcott and Shapwick, SOM
http://wsom-opc.org.uk

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