Mail not even addressed to me - ISP fault?

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I am not so why would I get these emails in my
mailbox?

Sometimes I wonder if ISPs are spammers.

 

You'll be in the bcc (blind carbon copy field) - you and any other
recipients won't show

EMB

 

I get things like that sometimes. Bad form posting the addys though unless
you're sure both sender and recipient are spammers.

 

oops, is this where I might say something like, 'my bad'?

 

With some of the mail programs, if they have your name in the BCC field, you
can't see your name in the header.


Caught me out. Mozilla does it.


But it's a feature I like.

 

LOL, everyone makes mistakes. Personally the only time I post real addys in
NGs is when they're spammer's addys. And then I hope like hell a spambot or
virus picks them up.

I've even got OEQuotefix installed so it doesn't put the previous posters
addy at the top of the posts as some people are newbies and have un-munged,
real addys.

 

Though some of us are not newbies and still have un-munged real addresses
because we refuse to give in.

Richard

 

wow, you must be really stubborn... I once got a black eye in a pillow
fight for being stubborn(him:does this hurt, me:no, him:does this hurt,
me:no, him:does this hurt, me:no, him:does this hurt, me:no, rinse and
repeat for 3 hrs) but I gave in a munged my email address.

 

You use OE as a newsreader? Frankly misift, I expected more from you.

 

OE does a very good job at news... and with quote fix, it is practically
perfect.

We all keep our systems no matter what OS/software up to date now don't
we...

 

<g>. Why thank you Sir. (I think).

Yeah. With Quotefix it's very user-friendly. I have it set to not accept
HTML, plain text only. I tried a few others a year or two ago but gave in.
It hasn't given me a problem in all the years I've been using it and, after
all, that's what really matters.

I wouldn't dream of using it for mail though.

 

LOL