I'll be forwarding this to SA sightings shortly, but I thought I'd share it with the group. I found it humorous.
----- Forwarded message from James <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ----- Reply-To: "James" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> From: "James" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Your address is on the Internet, next time hide it using these methods Date: Thu, 2 May 2002 18:37:41 -0500 Hello, Be careful when posting your email address on the internet. I was able to find it using a common tool. Below are some tips for hiding your address from search programs. Be creative with your mung, and change it often as well. These steps will prevent harvesters from picking up on patterns, and possibly changing their software to defeat them. Make it obvious to humans. DO: yourname(AT)example(DOT)com DO: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Replace Z with E) DO: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (use ONLY .invalid to do this!) DO: [EMAIL PROTECTED] DON'T: [EMAIL PROTECTED] If you decide to add a "spamblock" to your existing address, put it on the right-hand side of the @ sign. This avoids making your provider's email server handle undeliverable mail. Also, you want your mung to affect the rightmost portion of the domain name; if you add something immediately after the @ sign, many times the email will be delivered anyway. DO: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (be sure to read this! <http://members.aol.com/emailfaq/mungfaq.html>) DO: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (use ONLY .invalid to do this!) DON'T: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tell folks how to de-mung your address somewhere in your message. The signature (sig) that gets added to the end of each message is a good place to do this. DO: "To reply via email, remove '-REMOVE-THIS-' from my address." DO: "Real address is myrealname AT example DOT com" DO: "Replace all the Z's with E's to reply" DO: "Replace 'invalid' with 'net' to reply" I hope this helps... James Affordable website design and hosting http://www.blueartmedia.com Use Post-A-Doc to post documents on the net http://www.postadoc.net ----- End forwarded message ----- -- Randomly Generated Tagline: "You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do." - Henry Ford _______________________________________________________________ Have big pipes? SourceForge.net is looking for download mirrors. We supply the hardware. You get the recognition. Email Us: [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Spamassassin-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/spamassassin-talk
