[linux-audio-user] Re: public apology and withdrawal

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I don't seem to get any spam on this gmail account, and I'm subscribed
to a few lists.

If anyone would like a gmail account, I have 50 (!) invitations left. 
I suppose everybody that wants one has one.  I think it's a good
account for mailing lists.  Except that it encourages top-posting. :)


On Tue, 29 Mar 2005 21:24:48 -0600, Jan Depner <eviltwin69@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Tue, 2005-03-29 at 20:33, Larry Troxler 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?
> >
> 
>     I seem to be in about the same shape.  I only get one or two a day
> that get through the spam filter.  Probably on the order of five per day
> total.  I've only found two emails in the last year that ended up in my
> spam filter that were valid.
> 
> Jan
> 
>

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