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Keith Thompson wrote:
> "Minti" <> writes:
> > "Keith Thompson" <kst-> wrote in message
> > news:...
> > > Minti:
> > >
> > > You e-mailed me a question in response to something I posted on
this
> > > thread. Please post any questions to the newsgroup. If you must
send
> > > me e-mail, don't use a spam-blocked return address. (If
kissmyass.com
> > > is meant to be a spam trap, you should pick a different one; it
> > > happens to be a real domain, and you could be subjecting its
owner to
> > > spam that was meant for you.)
> >
> > Thanks, my mail program is configured to send both mail and post it
to the
> > newsgroup, however as a I later checked up after disconnecting that
it had
> > failed to upload the message. Ooops.
>
> Please reconfigure your mail program so it *doesn't* send your both
> messages both by e-mail and to the newsgroup.
>
> More precisely, it's your mail program, so you can configure it any
> way you like, but please don't send *me* e-mail messages that
> duplicate what you post to Usenet. I'm sure that most other people
> here feel the same way (I've seen plenty of complaints about the
> practice). My complaint wasn't that your message didn't show up on
> the newsgroup, it was that it did show up in my mailbox.


Thanks, even I dislike posts coming up to my mail. I will do so ASAP.

>
> And please seriously consider what I wrote above about kissmyass.com.


YMMV. But you mention that you could not mail me because of this
address. However/FYI I do sometimes care to add my mail address in my
sig..

HAND

--
Imanpreet Singh Arora
isingh AT acm DOT org

"Minti" <> writes:
> Keith Thompson wrote:
[...]
> > And please seriously consider what I wrote above about kissmyass.com.
>
> YMMV. But you mention that you could not mail me because of this
> address. However/FYI I do sometimes care to add my mail address in my
> sig..

I think you misunderstood my point.

I didn't try to send you e-mail once I saw that you had two different
e-mail addresses in your message; I wasn't going to take the time to
figure out how to contact you.

I'm assuming that the kissmyass.com address isn't your real address,
but there really is a domain by that name. By using a kissmyass.com
address as a spam trap, you could be causing the owner of the real
kissmyass.com to receive more spam. Even if the address isn't a valid
one at that site, it could still have an effect on that system's
network load.

If you're going to post an invalid address to avoid spam, use one that
can't possibly be valid (unless it goes to a system that you own and
you're prepared to handle the spam). You might try something like
<>. (Or perhaps something a bit less rude, but
that's up to you.)

--
Keith Thompson (The_Other_Keith) kst- <http://www.ghoti.net/~kst>
San Diego Supercomputer Center <*> <http://users.sdsc.edu/~kst>
We must do something. This is something. Therefore, we must do this.

Keith Thompson wrote:
>
.... snip ...
>
> If you're going to post an invalid address to avoid spam, use one that
> can't possibly be valid (unless it goes to a system that you own and
> you're prepared to handle the spam). You might try something like
> <>. (Or perhaps something a bit less rude, but
> that's up to you.)

That is what the .invalid value is for.

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