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(AlleyGator) wrote:

> OmManiPadmeOmelet > wrote:
>
> >I also needed to start posting with no e-mail address, and no spam.
> >There were some, uh, problems. Very complicated.
>
> The no email address thing is a very good idea. Even back in the
> mid-90's when I started realy using Usent, my old email addy ended up
> on a bunch of spammer CD's, obviously, and even way back then I was
> forced to change my ID and email. These days, it would be absolute
> murder to make that mistake. I set up an email account for my
> daughter as one of our DSL sub-accounts. She never used it, but when
> I went back a few weeks later to see if I still remembered the
> password, it was FULL of obscene spam. The acct had never been used,
> not even once. I wrote a nasty email to the provider accusing them of
> selling off their own accounts, but all I got back was a form letter
> wanting me to rate their customer service. The provider was SBC,
> BTW.

SBC... Not surprised.

After one of the last "worm" messes where everyone was getting literally
_thousands_ of e-mail messages clogging up the server, Century installed
some decent spam filters.

I still get SOME spam, but about 1/10th of what I used to get. I used to
check the server "gray mail" to make sure that I was not losing
anything, but it seems to be working well. I don't even bother anymore.

Cheers!
--
Om.

"My mother never saw the irony in calling me a son-of-a-bitch." -Jack Nicholson