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Subject:ADMIN: Re: Avoid Spam! From:"Eric J. Ray" <ejray -at- RAYCOMM -dot- COM> Date:Thu, 23 Oct 1997 20:18:11 -0600
Gang,
It's not appropriate--nor will it work if you're trying to
post to the TECHWR-L subcribers. If you're not on the
list with the same address from which you're posting,
it won't post.
Please take it off line.
Thanks!
Eric
At 09:52 PM 10/23/97 -0400, John Posada wrote:
>The problem with tis is that some email readers use what's known as
>friendly addresses. Therefore, to you I may show up as john -at- tdandw -dot- com
>, to others I may show up as John Posada without the email address. it
>make it more difficult to respond.
>
>Thats like asking people to do the following:
>
>Change foomaster -at- foobar -dot- com to john -at- tdandw -dot- com
>
>
>
>The Tech Writer wrote:
>>
>> I found the following on a newsgroup posting:
>>
>> remove NOSPAM from email address to reply
>> loki1 -at- ihug -dot- co -dot- nzNOSPAM
>>
>> It seemed like a good idea, to me. Any Spam robot would get a
>> non-existant email address if it read through this message. And a human
>> is smart enough to follow the directions, and remove the NOSPAM at the
>> end of the message before replying.
>>
>> -David Castro
>> techwrtr -at- crl -dot- comNOSPAM
>>
>>
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