Does anyone ever get anything other than spam in their quics email?
This used to be a usable tool.
Now, I think that maybe 1 out of hundreds of emails is pertinent.
-Bruce.
I think I’ve had one spam message in my quics email box in the last
four years. What makes you so lucky?
Previously, Bruce Edge wrote in qdn.public.qnx4:
Does anyone ever get anything other than spam in their quics email?
This used to be a usable tool.
Now, I think that maybe 1 out of hundreds of emails is pertinent.-Bruce.
I always got spam on my QUICS account. In fact I think I’ve got in excess of
80 spam messages saved there right now. Someone’s scanning the newsgroups and
spamming the E-Mail addresses in the posts. Bastards.
“Ken Schumm” <kwschumm@qsolv.com> wrote in message
news:Voyager.000907102015.3986A@dilbert…
| I think I’ve had one spam message in my quics email box in the last
| four years. What makes you so lucky?
|
| Previously, Bruce Edge wrote in qdn.public.qnx4:
| > Does anyone ever get anything other than spam in their quics email?
| > This used to be a usable tool.
| > Now, I think that maybe 1 out of hundreds of emails is pertinent.
| >
| > -Bruce.
| >
|
Hi Bruce,
Me too!
The problem is that you post to newsgroups (or QUICS which ports to
newsgroups).
These spamers scan the news groups for email addresses to send spam to.
I saw a post the other day where the e-mail address was listed as
REMOVE_MY_NAME@whatever.com (remove the “REMOVE_”). At first I thought that
this was silly but at least any auto scanning software will be fooled and
won’t be able to spam you.
Bruce Edge <bedge@sattel.com> wrote in message
news:39B7CB63.72883E74@sattel.com…
Does anyone ever get anything other than spam in their quics email?
This used to be a usable tool.
Now, I think that maybe 1 out of hundreds of emails is pertinent.-Bruce.
Bill at Sierra Design wrote:
I saw a post the other day where the e-mail address was listed as
REMOVE_MY_NAME@whatever.com > (remove the “REMOVE_”). At first I thought that
this was silly but at least any auto scanning software will be fooled and
won’t be able to spam you.
That’s precisely the point - avoid the spam that gets generated from these
postings.
However, if you put the REMOVE_ part in the domain name, then your domain’s mail
server won’t get bogged down either (with messages for “unknown” users).
Please remove NOSPAM to reply. Thanks.