Hi, I've had my email address (langf...@hiwaay.net) for almost 8 years now. The unfortunate consequence of this longevity is that the spammers are driving me absolutely crazy. I usually get over 200 junk emails DAILY!
Not only do I get the usual junk every day, but because of my website, the Chinese government has included my "aircraft manufacturing" site's email address in a list that it distributes to ALL of its businesses in an effort to help them market to us big American companies, like ME. Fortunately, I can filter most of that stuff out using rules speciying fonts that are peculiar to the Chinese language, but some still slip through. I also have "rules" which filter out mail based on about 50 different words such as "viagra", etc, and that gets quite a few too. But the bottom line is that I still have to wade through about 50 a day that neither my rules nor my ISP's spam filter knock out. I used Google to search the web for my email address, and it appears about 930 times in various places on the web...easy pickins for the spammers! So, as much as I hate to do it, I'm changing my email address. I've chosen an address that the spammers' automatic email address generation programs will never produce. I created it 6 months ago, and have never used it, and I've only received ONE message on that account so far (Welcome...)! I've also created another account that I'll use when I'm absolutely forced to give my address, such as when ordering online. And I'm changing my signature to "encypt" it a little, replacing the @ symbol with an "at". Please delete my old address (langf...@hiwaay.net) from your address book to avoid confusion. I'll update my web pages as I have time, using the new encrypted form. The old one will be disabled shortly. I guess I could have said all of this in one sentence, and probably should have! Sorry for the inconvenience, but I'm looking forward to a little peace and quiet... Mark Langford, Huntsville, AL N56ML "at" hiwaay.net see KR2S project at http://home.hiwaay.net/~langford
