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"Bad Dog" <> wrote in message
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> bjones wrote:
> > Another newbie question.. btw, you guys are great with the answers.
> >
> > I think I learned something today... noticed an increase in my incoming
> > emails containing that swen virus... checked email properties and most
of
> > them were coming to the mailbox i created for newsgroups. I guess that
> > was dumb.
> >
> > I noticed many people using newsgroups seem to have, well, for lack of a
> > better word, bogus email addresses. Is that the best policy?
> >
> > jonesie
>
>"" If you change your user name, somebody else may get your Spam. ((Always
make
> your change on the server side of the @ sign.)??????
>
> From: "bjones" <>
>
> From: "bjones" <>
>
> --
> Bad Dog *eg*

As someone who has the greatest difficulty understanding most things no
matter how simple they appear to others could someone explain in detail how
to go about the above
thanks in advance.




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On Wed, 24 Sep 2003 22:09:23 +0000 (UTC), in
<bkt4mi$n93$>
Mark_ Brown scrawled:

>
>"Bad Dog" <> wrote in message
>news:bkoj7l$43ade$...

<snip>

>>"" If you change your user name, somebody else may get your Spam. ((Always
>> make your change on the server side of the @ sign.)??????
>>
>> From: "bjones" <>
>>
>> From: "bjones" <>
>>
>
>As someone who has the greatest difficulty understanding most things no
>matter how simple they appear to others could someone explain in detail how
>to go about the above
>thanks in advance.

Make sure you print this out.

Open Outlook Express, and from the tool menu, click on 'Tools' and
scroll down to 'Accounts' and click.

Make sure that the 'Mail' tab is selected, and highlight (click on)
your mail account.

Over at the right, click on 'Properties'.

The 'General' tab will automatically be selected, and you change
your email address in the box that says: 'E-mail address'.

Press 'Apply', then 'OK', then 'Close'.

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Mark_ Brown wrote:

>
> "Bad Dog" <> wrote in message
> news:bkoj7l$43ade$...
[snip]
>>
>>"" If you change your user name, somebody else may get your
>>Spam. ((Always
> make
>> your change on the server side of the @ sign.)??????
>>
>> From: "bjones" <>
>>
>> From: "bjones" <>
>>
>> --
>> Bad Dog *eg*
>
> As someone who has the greatest difficulty understanding most
> things no matter how simple they appear to others could someone
> explain in detail how to go about the above
> thanks in advance.

Please make sure you munge after (behind) the @ sign and with an
invalid domain.

Or just do this:
lid

~ Munging ~
http://members.aol.com/emailfaq/mungfaq.html
http://www.ecofuture.org/jmnews.html#hide

If you use OE go to...
Tools> Accounts> News> Properties> General tab
Change your account name in User Information.

~ Spambots ~
http://www.sendfakemail.com/fakemail...t/makebait.asp

~ Harvesting ~
http://www.private.org.il/harvest.html
http://easyweb.easynet.co.uk/~gcasel...arvesting.html

~Safe Hex ~
http://www.sophos.com/virusinfo/articles/safehex.html
http://www.claymania.com/safe-hex.html

Freeware programs:
SpamPal for Windows http://www.spampal.org/
FrontGateMX http://www.presorium.com/index.shtml
PopCorn http://www.ultrafunk.com/products/popcorn/

Unpatched IE security holes
http://pivx.com/larholm/unpatched/

Get a Hotmail, Yahoo, or some other free service address. The Spam garbage
will go to them. They have great filtering for this. You can read the text
portions with your browser, and as long as you do not open or download the
attachments from the Spammers you will be okay. The browser will act as a
safety buffer for you.

You can then give out your service address, instead of your personal one.
This will allow you to receive the emails containing your answers. If you
want to engage in a constructive conversation with someone directly by
email, you can then privately give out your actual email address.

This is a good way to have control of what emails you will have.

Also, if you have any type of email address, even if it is one that has
never been used, the Spammers will eventually find it as long as it is
active. I have one that has not been active for about a year now. After
about a month after it was made, a number of spams started to come to it.

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"Mark_ Brown" <> wrote in message
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"Bad Dog" <> wrote in message
news:bkoj7l$43ade$...
> bjones wrote:
> > Another newbie question.. btw, you guys are great with the answers.
> >
> > I think I learned something today... noticed an increase in my incoming
> > emails containing that swen virus... checked email properties and most
of
> > them were coming to the mailbox i created for newsgroups. I guess that
> > was dumb.
> >
> > I noticed many people using newsgroups seem to have, well, for lack of a
> > better word, bogus email addresses. Is that the best policy?
> >
> > jonesie
>
>"" If you change your user name, somebody else may get your Spam. ((Always
make
> your change on the server side of the @ sign.)??????
>
> From: "bjones" <>
>
> From: "bjones" <>
>
> --
> Bad Dog *eg*

As someone who has the greatest difficulty understanding most things no
matter how simple they appear to others could someone explain in detail how
to go about the above
thanks in advance.




--
Mark Brown, Type 1 Diabetic,Hypoxic Brain injury,
wheelchair bound. etc. etc..

Mara wrote:

> On Wed, 24 Sep 2003 18:37:46 +0100, °Mike° wrote:

>>That still has nothing to do with the question. And if it was as
>>simple as you seem to think it is, don't you think that the bot
>>writers would have already done it? But, if you think you know
>>better, and could do better, go ahead and make yourself a
>>fortune...

> It probably wouldn't do any good anyway, now that Verisign is hijacking TLDs and
> telling ICANN to take a hike.

> "Personally I hope they get sued out of existence. Or blocked out of existence.
> Either is good."

I don't know if anybody else is along for the ride, but I just got email from
GoDaddy saying that they're suing Verisign.

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Blinky the Shark wrote:

> Mara wrote:
>
>> On Wed, 24 Sep 2003 18:37:46 +0100, °Mike° wrote:
>
>>>That still has nothing to do with the question. And if it was
>>>as simple as you seem to think it is, don't you think that the
>>>bot writers would have already done it? But, if you think you
>>>know better, and could do better, go ahead and make yourself a
>>>fortune...
>
>> It probably wouldn't do any good anyway, now that Verisign is
>> hijacking TLDs and telling ICANN to take a hike.
>
>> "Personally I hope they get sued out of existence. Or blocked
>> out of existence. Either is good."
>
> I don't know if anybody else is along for the ride, but I just
> got email from GoDaddy saying that they're suing Verisign.
>

There's a few lawsuits.
http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/sil...ey/6847574.htm

Boomer wrote:

> Blinky the Shark wrote:

>> Mara wrote:

>>> On Wed, 24 Sep 2003 18:37:46 +0100, °Mike° wrote:

>>>>That still has nothing to do with the question. And if it was
>>>>as simple as you seem to think it is, don't you think that the
>>>>bot writers would have already done it? But, if you think you
>>>>know better, and could do better, go ahead and make yourself a
>>>>fortune...

>>> It probably wouldn't do any good anyway, now that Verisign is
>>> hijacking TLDs and telling ICANN to take a hike.

>>> "Personally I hope they get sued out of existence. Or blocked
>>> out of existence. Either is good."

>> I don't know if anybody else is along for the ride, but I just
>> got email from GoDaddy saying that they're suing Verisign.

> There's a few lawsuits.
> http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/sil...ey/6847574.htm

I'm making a new FYI post on the BIND update, mentioned in this
article. Thanks, Ms. Boomer.

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Blinky the Shark wrote:

> Boomer wrote:

>> Blinky the Shark wrote:

>>> Mara wrote:

>>>> On Wed, 24 Sep 2003 18:37:46 +0100, °Mike° wrote:

>>>>>That still has nothing to do with the question. And if it was
>>>>>as simple as you seem to think it is, don't you think that the
>>>>>bot writers would have already done it? But, if you think you
>>>>>know better, and could do better, go ahead and make yourself a
>>>>>fortune...

>>>> It probably wouldn't do any good anyway, now that Verisign is
>>>> hijacking TLDs and telling ICANN to take a hike.

>>>> "Personally I hope they get sued out of existence. Or blocked
>>>> out of existence. Either is good."

>>> I don't know if anybody else is along for the ride, but I just
>>> got email from GoDaddy saying that they're suing Verisign.

>> There's a few lawsuits.
>> http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/sil...ey/6847574.htm

> I'm making a new FYI post on the BIND update, mentioned in this
> article. Thanks, Ms. Boomer.

Errr...in alt.os.linux.mandrake.

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Jerry G. wrote:
>
> Get a Hotmail, Yahoo, or some other free service address. The Spam garbage
> will go to them. They have great filtering for this. You can read the text

Agreed. To use their "free services" you get to read lots of ads. Make
it work for you also.


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Plato wrote:

> Jerry G. wrote:

>> Get a Hotmail, Yahoo, or some other free service address. The Spam garbage
>> will go to them. They have great filtering for this. You can read the text

> Agreed. To use their "free services" you get to read lots of ads. Make
> it work for you also.

I don't get ads from Yahoo, at my freebies there. Opt out; don't
get...as far as I can see.

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