rude?? really? why? after years of having to sift through spam all the time and losing real mails in the spam folders, i'm paranoid about releasing my real address onto the web in any form. so far i think i've only received the brute force type mails to my real address, where they just guess your address, and, of course, the few that get sent to my disposable addresses. 20 per day!?? eek! sounds like a huge pain to me. i've received exactly 10 spams since feb 28th (today is march 29th), all of which are to disposable addresses (from mailing lists like this one) and i can delete the address if someone big decides to put one on their list and send me tons of internet pharmaceutical mailings. i think it's a nice way to operate. On Tue, 29 Mar 2005 21:33:14 -0500, Larry Troxler lt-at-westnet.com |Linux Audio Users| <...> wrote: > On Tuesday 29 March 2005 20:55, Jon B wrote: > > > unfortunately, it is true that i signed noah up for spam - after > > > receiving a bunch of spam yesterday, and with my troll-like rage still > > > brewing over our exchanges, i expediently blamed noah and signed him up > > > on one of the pages the spam led to. > > > > Why are you using real email addresses on a mailing list in the first > > place? > > > > Because it's rude not to? > > Honestly, are people's spam filters that bad that they can't handle this, or > is mine so bad in the other direction, that unbeknownst to me, I'm missing > most of the private mail I get? > > I always use my real email address on all the email lists I'm subsrcribed to, > and also on usenet, and also on all web based message boards. > > And yet, I at most I get about 20 unsolicited commercial emails per day, more > typically only about 5 per day. > > Again, since I seem to be the only one not worried about this problem, I > wonder if I'm somehow missing valid emails. But I don't think so, because I > haven't had any such complaints. > > So, what gives? What's the magical difference about my ISP that I don't have > to make life difficult for other people by mangling my email address, and > making them go through contortions to reply to me? > > Larry > > lt@xxxxxxxxxxx > lt@xxxxxxxxxxx > lt@xxxxxxxxxxx > > ^ See, I'm not afraid!
